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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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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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Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2005
In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …
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The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2004
Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In …
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The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches : Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
Lim, Jaegeum - 2015
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …
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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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