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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely … books, even after conditioning on race; we also find that children are depicted with lighter skin than adults on average …
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We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing … market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of …. Evaluated at the mean housing price, the expansion increased the value of pre-connected apartments by at least S$386 million …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that dynastic home equity increases housing wealth inequality among young adults by 20%. … the importance of familial wealth for household wealth accumulation and housing wealth in particular. A back …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to … inequality. …
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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website of housing listings for families with housing vouchers. We find that this information causes families to choose … estimate a dynamic model of families' search for housing on and off the website, as well as their location decisions. The model …
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