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Bertocchi, Graziella - 2020

Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...

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Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States : Differences by Race and Ethnicity

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2017

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...

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Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education : The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

Kose, Esra - 2016

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human capital accumulation by exploiting plausibly exogenous...

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Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...

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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

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely 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...

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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status ofEthnic Minorities in Britain

Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependenceon social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issueswith significant policy consequences...

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The Elite Brain Drain

Hunter, Rosalind - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the …

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Extreme Weather and Long-Term Health : Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2019

, encountering three years of droughts in childhood reduces an elite's life span by about two years. A remarkably important channel …

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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …

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Catching Up is Hard to Do : Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium

Hersch, Joni - 2019

A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly … relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and earnings among those with elite post-baccalaureate degrees. Few … graduates of nonselective institutions earn post-baccalaureate degrees from elite institutions, and even when they do …

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