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Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence from a Recruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company
Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018
The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....
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A Post Bellum Paradox: Net Nutrition Variation by Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Race in the Late 19th Century
Carson, Scott Alan - 2024
When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...
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Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media
Ash, Elliott; Durante, Ruben; Grebenshchikova, Maria; … - 2022
We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and … gender and ethnic identity of authors and editors. …
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Mothers' Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019
We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cezar; … - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the...
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2017
development, set forth in Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of …
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
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 … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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