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Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - 2021

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

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School Friendship Networks, Homophily and Multiculturalism: Evidence from European Countries

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020

This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea...

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Birth in Hard Times When You Belong To Minorities

Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020

Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate infor- mation, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...

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The Slippery Slope from Pluralistic to Plural Societies

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021

Academic consensus about normative prescriptions on the ethnic and cultural composition of societies has been shifting in recent decades. It has evolved from what seemed desirable but was acknowledged to be unrealistic (the noble idea of a melting pot), to what is realistic because it has...

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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...

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Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Jales, Hugo B.; Liu, Judith; … - 2023

We analyze the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food resource gap"). To do this, we propose a simple...

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Do beliefs in the model minority stereotype reduce attention to inequality that adversely affects Asian Americans?

Chen, Shuai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wiese, Juliane - 2024

We study whether the model minority stereotype about Asian Americans (e.g., hard-working, intelligent) reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around 90% of the participants either moderately or...

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Understanding inequality within households

Almås, Ingvild; Ringdal, Charlotte; Hoem Sjursen, Ingrid - 2021

To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra-household inequality. House- holds can hide important inequalities, but can also be essential units for redistribution in society. This paper gives an overview of within- household...

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Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Intergenerational Effects of Randomly Allocating Refugees Across Language Regions

Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes S. - 2021

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for...

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The evolution of tax implicit value judgements, redistribution and income inequality in the UK: 1968 to 2015

van de Ven, Justin; Hérault, Nicolas - 2019

judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and …

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