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Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation
Mok, Wallace - 2009
-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …-examine racial inequality in the labor market by examining within-group inequality in compensation over the last decade and also the … role of ability in between-group inequality in compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155559
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016328
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy
Bowblis, John - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145192
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Spillover Effects of Black Teachers on White Teachers' Racial Competency : Mixed Methods Evidence from North Carolina
Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance; Papageorge, … - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344288
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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Employer Provided Fringe Benefits
Mok, Wallace - 2012
We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life … significantly large after controlling for individual differences in age and youth characteristics. Irrespective of race, ethnicity … cohorts for women (irrespective of race or ethnicity), but not for men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112770
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835875
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Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Jones, Daniel; Shi, Ying - 2022
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....
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'Can't Get Enough' : Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057458
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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324962
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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Wozniak, Abigail - 2015
drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036807