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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...
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underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
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-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
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Many of the positive economic trends coming out of the Civil Rights Era for black men stagnated or reversed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the impact of this trade shock on racial disparities...
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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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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...
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subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … affected by type of injury and the player's race. We calculate that the average ex post loss in annual compensation from a … outcomes equally for white and nonwhite players. Both injuries and race affect compensation solely through their effects on …
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parents, varies across race. Using education data linked to tax records, we find that the income-achievement gap is small for … the variation in the gap across race. Our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students …
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