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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors' expected back transfers and eliminates their …
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Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
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How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...
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The Finnish basic income experiment was an ambitious effort to study basic income in a Nordic welfare state. This paper describes the planning, implementation and scientific evaluation of the experiment. The randomized treatment group was paid a guaranteed monthly income, which had no impact on...
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that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity can reverse the ethnicity gap in rates of interest and applications …
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This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
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We examine whether concerns about lenders’ discrimination based on community racial characteristics can be empirically … Indian residents is low. While these results are consistent with the possibility of lenders’ discrimination based on …
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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …
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