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of ethnic fractionalization on social capital over time. In addition we find evidence of the conflict theory and no …
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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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conditions, cross-race coalitions can be major drivers of social and political change. …
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Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
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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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We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …
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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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the theory, Mexican immigration improves Whites' racial attitudes, increases support for pro-Black government policies and …
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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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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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