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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 …
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attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid …
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The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the formula-based targeting of subsidized loans provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional...
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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information. In many cases, the law prohibits the collection of such information to prevent direct racial discrimination. As a … estimating racial differences in party registration. Finally, we apply the proposed methodology to estimate racial differences in … Service. Open-source software is available which implements the proposed methodology …
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The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation, with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...
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minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the … number of loans per employer business or loan amounts per employee, and the minority share of the population or businesses in … round of 2020. We find a stronger positive relationship between minority share and loan numbers or amounts to employer …
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instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … with required attendance provides frequent interactions with the TA. We find evidence that underrepresented minority … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …
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