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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367612
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Changing ingroup boundaries: the effect of immigration on race relations in the US
Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of other minorities as in- or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517506
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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior … cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793465
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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women : evidence from the US
Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011
possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter … ; race ; ethnicity ; birth place ; black ; welfare ; immigrant status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248018
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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252637
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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2005
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002544087
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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017
differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … other - can lead to misleading conclusions. Our findings underscore the desirability of conducting separate analyses by race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631472
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Disparities in psychological traits and income : race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.
Dariel, Aurélie; Ham, John C.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; … - 2024
and significant portion of all five race-gender income gaps with White men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493852
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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000
Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328061
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
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