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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show that the PCE is sizeable and negative at age 7 (-1.6% for language and …
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency … language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using …Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the …
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We … by matching. In many cases, it turns out not to be possible to calculate satisfactory quantitative estimates even with … matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants
Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe …
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