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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States

Antman, Francisca M. - 2021

This essay discusses the multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States as represented in current surveys. It reviews some of the critical barriers in data collection methods that limit research studies on this population. Solutions are suggested that would improve...

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American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2023

social factors underlying the individual choice of racial identity. …

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Incentives to identify: Racial identity in the age of affirmative action

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014

broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …

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Incentives to Identify: A Comment

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019

Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …

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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...

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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...

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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 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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