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Excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness among status Indians in Canada

Akee, Randall; Feir, Donna - 2016

In this paper we use confidential-use Census and administrative data to produce the first national estimates of excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We identify mortality rates at least twice the...

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Employment discrimination against indigenous peoples in the United States : evidence from a field experiment

Button, Patrick; Walker, Brigham - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Culture and human capital investments : evidence of an unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of an old-age unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity and gender of the recipient. Taking advantage of a...

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Does more money make you fat? : the effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity

Akee, Randall; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010

This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra income differ depending on the households' initial...

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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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Domestic violence and labor market outcomes : evidence from a mixed-race developing country

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2010

This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence in the region. Anecdotal evidence and empirical...

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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups : evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2015

Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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Sometimes, winners lose : economic disparity and indigenization in Kazakhstan

Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014

Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...

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Decomposing differences in labour force status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Kalb, Guyonne; Le, Trinh; Hunter, Boyd H.; Leung, Felix - 2012

Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes the gap in labour market attachment between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians in...

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