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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find …

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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca M. - 2020

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market : Patterns Over Time and Across Generations

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics...

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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation

Antman, Francisca M.; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in...

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Borders, Ethnicity and Trade

Aker, Jenny C. - 2010

Do national borders and ethnicity contribute to market segmentation between and within countries? This paper uses …, and in line with important characteristics of African economies, we investigate the role of ethnicity in mitigating and … exacerbating the border effect. We find that a common ethnicity is linked to lower price dispersion across countries, yet ethnic …

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Who Benefited from World War II Service and the GI Bill? New Evidence on Heterogeneous Effects for US Veterans

Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...

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Work and Play : International Evidence of Gender Equality in Employment and Sports

Klein, Michael W. - 2002

This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic competition reflects the degree of their relative participation...

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