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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage Among Comparable Women : Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2011

to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … way that welfare usage should be based primarily on economic needs and health concerns. However, it is possible that an …, differences in welfare usage will exist for individuals with similar characteristics but different experiences. We explore this …

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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage

Gevrek, Deniz - 2020

This study investigates the observed positive relationship between educational attainment and likelihood of black-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in interracial marriages, this study contributes to the...

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Bitter Sugar : Slavery and the Black Family

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2020

We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and...

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Mortality Inequality : The Good News from a County-Level Approach

Currie, Janet - 2016

Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young adults, mortality has been falling more quickly in poorer areas with the result that inequality in...

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Remote Work, Children's Health and the Racial Gap in Female Wages

Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022

This paper studies the racial gap in the female wage penalty to remote work. Using a temporary child health problem as a source of exogenous variation in the propensity to work from home, wage penalties reach 86 percent for black women and 77 percent for white women. Promotion bias, task...

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Transfer payments, sample selection, and male black-white earnings differences

Vroman, Wayne - In: The American economic review 76 (1986) 2, pp. 351-354

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African American and white differences in the impacts of monetary policy on the duration of unemployment

Rodgers, William M. - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 382-386

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Gender and business outcomes of black and hispanic new entrepreneurs in the United States

Mora, Marie T.; Dávila, Alberto E. - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 245-249

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Fertility transitions along the extensive and intensive margins

Aaronson, Daniel; Lange, Fabian; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3701-3724

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Black-White Marital Matching : Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with...

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