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Late 19th and early 20th century urban net nutrition by gender and race
Carson, Scott Alan - 2023
lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter …
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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom
Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024
What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in … within schools to obtain variation in the type of diversity that prevails in a peer group. We combine this with a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478732
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Increasing workplace diversity : evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune 500 company
Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018 - This version: April 11, 2018
The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field … different types of signals regarding the extent and manner in which the employer values diversity among its workers. We find …
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Shocking racial attitudes : black G.I.s in Europe
Schindler, David; Westcott, Mark - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747459
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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2016
Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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Black and white labor market outcomes in the 19th century American South
Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598626
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Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves only the minority and a high-price firm serves only...
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Price and prejudice : housing rents reveal racial animus
Brülhart, Marius; Klinke, Gian-Paolo; Marcucci, Andrea; … - 2023
We study market rents in the neighborhood of asylum seeker hosting centers. Our empirical setting exploits the quasi-random opening of centers and spatial allocation of asylum seekers in Switzerland. Rents within 0.7km of an active center are found on average to be 3.8% lower than rents in the...
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Monetary policy and racial inequality
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2021
This paper aims at an improved understanding of the relationship between monetary policy and racial inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428946
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The impacts of Covid-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings …. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020 were 16-19 percent for all business owners. Racial inequality increased in …
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