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ethnic groups. Understanding these disparities requires accurate measures of race and ethnicity of people involved in the … justice system. We document how race and ethnicity are recorded by administrative agents and how operational concerns limit … corrections to misreported race and ethnicity. To understand the impacts of these administrative processes, this paper uses novel …
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates … study the race, ethnic, and gender composition of workers who were hired and those who experienced mass layoffs at two large …
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degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed. These tools are applied in the context of pretrial bail decisions, where conventional algorithmic predictions are...
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Although research has shown that court-ordered hiring quotas increase the number of minority police officers in litigated cities, there has been little insight into how workforce diversity, or lack thereof, may impact police violence against civilians. Using an event study framework, we find...
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How does immigration enforcement affect public safety? Heightened enforcement could reduce crime by deterring and …
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