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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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the need for race-conscious policies specifically targeting or differentially benefiting students of color, as race …-neutral strategies have minimal impact. Ultimately, multiple race-conscious policy solutions addressing various educational milestones …
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It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is … broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …
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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...
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality … whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We show that the purely racial contribution to income inequality as …
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experiment, we ask recruiters to assess fictitious job applicants of various race-ethnicities but consistent social class. The … taste-based and statistical discrimination have offered. We find that different race-ethnicity groups are evaluated rather … race-ethnicity. …
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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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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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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 … may be rooted in inequality in special needs status. …
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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 …
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