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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick; Walker, Brigham - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...

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Does more money make you fat? The effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010

This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra income differ depending on the households' initial...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Feir, Donna L.; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie E. C. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...

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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? An experiment in a coeducational university

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

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Stayers and returners: Educational self-selection among US immigrants and returning migrants

Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto - 2013

This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...

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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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The college type: Personality and educational inequality

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that...

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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … intermediate inputs in education for treatment students. …

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