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lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …
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An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes. We argue that the influence of geography in medical practice needs to be taken seriously for both the statistical measurement of racial disparities, and in designing reforms...
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Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines … than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …
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. The association between segregated environments and minority disadvantage is driven in part by physical isolation of black …
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This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the …
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We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate … attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid …
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This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...
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been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population …, and may perversely work to the detriment of the unskilled and uneducated. This study finds that minority males earn higher … wages in sectors where affirmative action is prevalent, indicating that it has increased the demand for minority males. I …
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