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Hurst, Erik; Rubinstein, Yona; Shimizu, Kazuatsu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

introduce a unified model that integrates notions of both taste-based and statistical discrimination into a task-based model of … occupational sorting. At the heart of our framework is the idea that discrimination varies by the task requirement of each job. We … in the racial gap in Contact tasks serves as a good proxy for changes in taste-based discrimination over time. We find …

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Racial Discrimination and Competition

Levine, Ross - 2008

This paper assesses the impact of competition on racial discrimination. The dismantling of inter- and intrastate bank …

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Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2005

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages might have grown less than men's had their behavior been...

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The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2004

Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In the 1970's, women were relatively equal (to each other) in terms of their earnings potential, so that nonwage factors may have dominated female labor supply decisions and...

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The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Juhn, Chinhui - 2015

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Using twins as an instrumental variable and panel data to control for omitted factors we find that families face a substantial...

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Liberty for More : Finance and Educational Opportunities

Levine, Ross - 2013

Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class families. We define "able" students as those with learning aptitude scores in the top two-thirds of the U.S. population. We define "middle class" as families in which both parents...

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