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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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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
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adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …
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lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter …
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A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race …-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on …
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Can attitudes towards minorities, an important cultural trait, be changed? We show that the presence of African American soldiers in the UK during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population. The...
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a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …
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The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …
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exacerbates preexisting sex-based and race-based inequality in reported crime and arrest rates, increasing both the Black … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …
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