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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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This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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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 …
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emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
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Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …
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This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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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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