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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
of various skill dimensions for success in the labor market. This paper examines the returns to cognitive, personality … skills and earnings, including the matching of skill supply and demand, will enhance our understanding of the role of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015081348
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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696667
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Gender and racial biases : evidence from child adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935222
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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
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Nineteenth century black and white US statures : the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803559
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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 natural language processing tools, the method allows us to analyze both images and text as well as the interaction between the two. We apply this approach to over 2 million web...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013176883
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105536
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
the months before versus after the reform, we find that birthright citizenship lowers measures of life satisfaction and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154851