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We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender … political ideology and income have increased over the last four decades. Whites and non-whites have converged somewhat on …
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Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-1986, i.e., those who reached adulthood within the past decade...
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We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the … consumption are different than those for income, particularly in the upper part of the distribution. Liquid assets increase in the … upper half of the distribution, consistent with the divergence between the upper half of the income and consumption …
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Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …
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analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we …
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Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
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We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from …
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income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones. To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we … identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications …
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Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit …
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School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into...
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