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Self-Selection, Prenatal Care, and Birthweight Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in New York City

Joyce, Theodore - 1990

, black infants would experience gains of 130 grams, whites 234 grams, and Hispanics 183 grams. The gains for adequate as …

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification

Elder, Todd E. - 2019

We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are...

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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...

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The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

Bayer, Patrick - 2013

is important heterogeneity within minorities: black and Hispanics that live in areas with lower employment rates and that …

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House Prices and Birth Rates : The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2011

fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are … normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in house prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility … percent increase in fertility rates among owners and a 2.4 percent decrease among non-owners. At the mean U.S. home ownership …

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The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births

Gordon, Nora - 2016

We find a strong positive correlation between black exposure to whites in their school district and the prevalence of later mixed-race (black-white) births, consistent with the literature on residential segregation and endogamy. However, that relationship is significantly attenuated by the...

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Impact of Augmented Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes of Medicaid Recipients in New York City

Joyce, Theodore - 1997

I examine whether New York State's Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP) is associated with greater use of prenatal services and improved birth outcomes. PCAP is New York State's augmented prenatal care initiative that became a part of the Medicaid program after expansion in income eligibility...

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The Decline of African-American and Hispanic Wealth since the Great Recession

Wolff, Edward N. - 2018

(0.19) but then fell to 0.14 in 2016, while that between Hispanics and whites climbed from 0.16 to 0.26 but then plunged … to 0.19. Minorities had much higher debt-net worth ratios in 2007 - 0.55 for blacks, 0.51 for Hispanics, and 0.18 for … for blacks and Hispanics than whites (by 0.120 and 0.093 Gini points, but AW inequality was considerably lower (by 0 …

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What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders

Bayer, Patrick - 2016

This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost...

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