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Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010

Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...

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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

Jacob, Brian A. - 2010

This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...

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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies

Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...

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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging : Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different … education, health, and participation rates between population subgroups can have on increasing the U.S. labor force. Our … population growth. The downstream effects of removing disparities in population health and educational attainment on labor force …

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The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan

Hurd, Michael D. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 1997

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Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates : The Dual-Bootstrap

Lu, Benjamin; Wan, Jia; Ouyang, Derek; Goldin, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals' races and ethnicities to calculate them. A common solution is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using...

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Perspectives on the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2004

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Demography and the economy

Shoven, John B. (contributor) - 2011

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The economic consequences of demographic change in East Asia : [NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 19 ; selection of papers presented at the 19th Annual East Asian Seminar...

Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2010

; comments: Jocelyn E. Finlay, Jong-Wha Lee -- Population aging and economic growth in Asia / David E. Bloom, David Canning, and … we cope with the declining population?/ Noriyuki Takayama ; comments: Worawan Chandoevwit, Hyungpyo Moon -- The effects …

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Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI

Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I examine the specialization of US commuting zones in AI-related occupations over the 2000 to 2018 period. I define AI-related jobs based on keywords in Census occupational titles. Using the approach in Lin (2011) to identify new work, I measure job growth related to AI by weighting employment...

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