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The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …
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than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis based on logit...
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The US teaching force remains disproportionately white while the student body grows more diverse. It is therefore important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black...
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underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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We provide evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racial hate crime in England and Wales. Using various … difference-in-difference and event study approaches, we find that racial hate crime against East Asians increased by 70 … evidence that hate crime increased as COVID-19 cases in China increased and following announcements from the government …
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This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of … unemployment/crime - right-winger nexus. Moreover, crime does not seem to have a strong significant effect on right-wing populist …
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We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using … along these dimensions. Distinctive patterns arise by gender and race for inter-married individuals: the black women who …
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