minority representation in the entering freshman classes declined. In this paper we ask whether the elimination of affirmative … action caused any change in the college application behavior of minority students in the two states. A particular concern is … admission prospects. We use information from SAT-takers in the two states to compare the fractions of minority students who sent …

United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives …

Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins …

environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an …

(DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management …-contractible. These conditions generate sub-optimal communication within the MNC. If communication is complementary with language skills …, the planner could raise welfare by subsidizing foreign language acquisition. We experimentally assess the validity of the …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …

emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …