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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies

Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …

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Same As it Ever Was : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Differences in Promotion for Academic Economists

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth; Milakhina, Daria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

examine gender and racial/ethnicity differentials in promotion of economists in economics and non-economics departments …. Results are mixed. The share of Black economists remains at 3%. Huge gender penalties in promotion to both associate and full … not explained by productivity continue in economics departments. There are no gender penalties in promotion to associate …

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Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA : Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity

Kondo, Illenin O.; Rinz, Kevin; Gubbay, Natalie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …

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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S

Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior

Haushofer, Johannes; Lowes, Sara; Musau, Abednego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...

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The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group

Barrera, Sergio E.; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We analyze the impact of World War II service on income and mobility among male Army and Army Airforce veterans from various racial and ethnic groups, using linked 1940 Census, WWII enlistment, and 1969 administrative tax return data. The dataset includes non-Hispanic White, Black, Hispanic,...

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Everyone Steps Back? The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators when Migration Fear is High

Bai, Jianqiu; Kerr, William R.; Wan, Chi; Yorulmaz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009-2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The funding gap for minorities more...

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Why Aren't There More Minority Entrepreneurs?

Bennett, Victor M.; Robinson, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study racial and gender disparities in entrepreneurial activity through the lens of a Roy model, focusing on the …

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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity

Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

heterogeneity by race/ethnicity. We find that Medicaid expansion reduced SSI take-up among White and Hispanic respondents by 10% and …

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