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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008

What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and … inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … the degree of inequality across metropolitan areas? Twenty years ago, metropolitan inequality was strongly associated with …

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Race and Gender Pay Differentials

Blau, Francine D. - 1992

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...

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Unhappy Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move to these areas. While the historical data on happiness are … interpretation of these facts is that individuals do not aim to maximize self-reported well-being, or happiness, as measured in … surveys, and they willingly endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower housing costs. In this view …

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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s : Slowing Convergence

Blau, Francine D. - 2004

We use data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We found that changes in human capital did not contribute to the trends, since women improved their relative human capital to...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D. - 1997

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany during the 1984-91 period. We find that young, less educated American men and especially women are far less likely to be employed than their German counterparts. Moreover, less...

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The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Gender Wage Differentials 1975-1987

Blau, Francine D. - 1994

and a rising level of wage inequality. This paper uses Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) data for 1975 and …

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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...

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Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location : The Influence of John Kain

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore the effects of race on housing markets and labor market opportunities, but this was not always the case. Through what can be seen as a consistent and integrated research plan, John Kain developed many central ideas of...

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Induced Innovation and Social Inequality : Evidence from Infant Medical Care

Cutler, David M. - 2009

We develop a model of induced innovation where research effort is a function of the death rate, and thus the potential to reduce deaths in the population. We also consider potential social consequences that arise from this form of induced innovation based on differences in disease prevalence...

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