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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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-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in … race and cohort differences exist in the Black-White self-employment gap. A subgroup of U.S. born African-Americans have a …
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along these dimensions. Distinctive patterns arise by gender and race for inter-married individuals: the black women who …We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using …
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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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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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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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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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Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to …
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