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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
Cuñat, Vicente - 2014
shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder …
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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?
Howard, Larry L. - 2011
disadvantaged minority populations. In response to the employment quotas, individuals belonging to the Scheduled Caste group are …
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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013
leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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Minority and Immigrant Homeownership Experience : Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Mundra, Kusum - 2013
Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...
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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020
the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2020
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
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Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Colussi, Tommaso - 2016
election date is closer to Ramadan. We additionally show that the change in minority salience also increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977063
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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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