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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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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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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 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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Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which...
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A substantial number of regulatory frameworks are commonly viewed by impartial observers as inordinately complex. Is there an explanation for this phenomenon? Employing a partial equilibrium model, this paper approaches the problem of complexity from a political-economy vantage point. It...
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We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by …
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border to show that increased disposable income significantly reduces temperature-related mortality in treated areas … marginal effect of temperature on mortality and contribute to the debate on the effectiveness of climate-related redistribution …
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more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …
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We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von … generated a significant mortality reduction. The results are largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. We …
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