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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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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions ヨ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ヨ has declined … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the 2010 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the relation … between job satisfaction and race and ethnicity among Asian, black, Hispanic/Latino, and white workers. Overall job …
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We show that under arguably plausible assumptions regarding the DNA exoneration process, in expectation, the ratio of DNA exoneration rates across races among defendants convicted for the same crime in the same state provides an upper bound on the ratio of wrongful conviction rates across races...
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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 the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … other – can lead to misleading conclusions. Our findings underscore the desirability of conducting separate analyses by race …
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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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individual's experiences could affect their perception and preferences for using government assistance. In this scenario … 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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This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...
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