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Hu, Luojia - 2005

layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and …

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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement : Vehicle Searches in Wichita

Persico, Nicola - 2004

This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in...

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Race and Older Age Mortality : Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Costa, Dora L. - 2004

This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and white cohorts who reached middle and late ages in the twentieth century. Blacks faced a greater risk of death from all causes, especially in large cities, from infectious and...

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Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities

Aizer, Anna - 2004

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why poor women choose different providers than their richer neighbors. We exploit an exogenous change in policy that occurred in California in the early 1990s that suddenly increased...

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Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men

Gan, Li - 2004

This paper investigates to what extent the differences in education between black and white men can be explained by the differences in their mortality risks. A dynamic optimal stopping-point life cycle model is examined, in which group-level mortality risk plays an important role in determining...

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Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location : The Influence of John Kain

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore the effects of race on housing markets and …

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

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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Estimating Housing Demand with an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities

Bajari, Patrick - 2003

We present a three-stage estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage, we estimate a non-parametric hedonic home price function. Second, we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first order conditions for...

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