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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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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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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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