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The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the rural populations in the New World. The trend in their...
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ardent supporters) into majority-minority districts. House delegations had more Hispanics suggesting that partisan …
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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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for an extensive set of geographical and historical factors of development and minority settlement patterns. Matching type … by their legacy on local human capital accumulation. In comparison, the mediating effect of minority asset transfer on …
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Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …
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How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test … scores. Observables correlated with minority status explain less than a third of the reduced-form test score effect while …
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I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … a high-price firm serves only the majority while a low-price firm serves both the minority and majority. Paradoxically …
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Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...
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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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