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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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Gender Differences in Completed Schooling
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2002
mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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Peer Gender Composition and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo - 2013
In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …
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