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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities
Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...
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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585442
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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Market
Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report evidence on discriminatory behavior from the largest correspondence study conducted to date in the rental housing market. Using more than 25,000 interactions with rental property managers across the 50 largest U.S. cities, the study reveals that African American and Hispanic/LatinX...
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of … held by Hispanic poor English speakers are most important for the employment of these less-skilled Hispanics than for other … Hispanics. This evidence is consistent with labor market networks being an important influence on the employment of less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463251
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Financial Returns to Home Purchases from 2007 to 2020
Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The racial and ethnic composition of home buyers varies across geographic locations. For example, Asians and Hispanics … Asians and Hispanics and the sample average. Within geographic areas, average loan differences across racial and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533308
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E. - 1991
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475356
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it … fell 6.7 percent among Black households and 7.3 percent among Hispanics. The effect was even stronger on median values …
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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435105
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach
Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
example, by embracing the fact that Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites acquire retirement information from different sources …
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