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Race, Ethnicity and High-Cost Mortgage Lending

Bayer, Patrick - 2014

This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that … housing transactions and proprietary credit reporting data. The results reveal a significantly higher incidence of high costs …

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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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Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective : A Brief Introduction

Boustan, Leah - 2014

The United States has a long and ongoing history of racial inequality. This paper surveys the literature on one aspect of that history: long-run trends in racial differences in health. We focus on standard measures such as infant mortality and life expectancy but also consider the available data...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning

Shertzer, Allison - 2014

Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...

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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …

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Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade : Interstate and Racial Differences

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1994

The 1992 eighth grade mathematics test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals a low average level of achievement, wide variation across states, and a large difference in average scores of white and black students. Multiple regression analysis across states indicates that the...

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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has 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...

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The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity

Billings, Stephen B. - 2020

youth affected their party affiliation in adulthood. Specifically, we examine the end of race-based busing in Charlotte …

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Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care : Preliminary Evidence from a Multi-Wave Audit Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2020

A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination across many contexts, including healthcare. Simultaneously, transgender individuals face various mental health disparities, including higher rates of depression and anxiety,...

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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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