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Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings

Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...

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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...

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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design

Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...

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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...

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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality

Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...

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Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice : Theory and Evidence from China

Jia, Ruixue - 2019

widely across localities, suggesting that social norms may be important. We formalize the ethnic identity choice in a simple … framework, which highlights the interaction of material benefits stemming from the ethnic policies, identity costs associated … with breaking the norms of following the father's ethnicity, and social reputations altering the importance of identity …

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Educational Expectations and Attainment

Jacob, Brian A. - 2010

This paper examines the role of educational expectations in the educational attainment process. We utilize data from a variety of datasets to document and analyze the trends in educational expectations between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s. We focus on differences across racial/ethnic and...

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Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages

Mocan, Naci H. - 2009

Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can...

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