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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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Stereotypes
Bordalo, Pedro - 2014
's most distinctive trait. Applied to gender stereotypes, the model provides a unified account of disparate evidence regarding … the gender gap in education and in labor markets …
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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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