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Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that …
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compositions of educational attainment and race. We find that a higher number of homosexuals in relatively higher educated areas is …
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Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...
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the regard human beings have for one another be it by gender, race, tribe or group has an impact on business and socio …
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as well as pitch location. Our analysis shows mixed results regarding the matching of umpire and pitcher race. We … conclude that evidence of own race bias is sensitive to specification and methodology. How results can differ based on … different data sets, specifications, time periods and race classifications are discussed. …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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This article analyzes factors influencing the decisions of prospective lenders to extend credit to small and minority-owned businesses. Using data from a government survey of small businesses, the analysis reveals that prospective lenders (primarily commercial banks)are four times more likely to...
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