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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Whitelashing : Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence

Logan, Trevon D. - 2019

This paper provides the first evidence of the effect of tax policy on the likelihood of violent attacks against black politicians. I find a strong positive effect of local tax revenue on subsequent violence against black politicians. A dollar increase in per capita county taxes increases the...

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Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

Lang, Kevin - 2006

We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability. Our model explains the difference between blacks and whites in the relations between education and AFQT and between wages...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...

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Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

Cavounidis, Costas - 2015

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely without monitoring, black workers are monitored and fired if a negative signal is received. The...

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Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier - 2014

We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification relies on the independence between the covariates and selection, for arbitrarily large values of the outcome. In this...

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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct a new database with systematic measures of inputs and...

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

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Culture : Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2014

previously thought. Persistence is also culture specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one's ancestors matters for …

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Comparison of urban equilibria : the conflict between efficiency and equity in the choice of the central city's majority

DeBartolome, Charles A. M. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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