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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2007

and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …

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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006

This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...

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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....

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Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement : A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2015

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions,...

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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...

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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2011

The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...

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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Black, Sandra E. - 2007

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …

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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …

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