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American idol: evidence of same-race preferences?
Lee, Jungmin - 2006
evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring more black contestants attracts more black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267580
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Discrimination as a competitive device: the case of local television news
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2005
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269217
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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers
Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M. - 2017
influence of applicant race and ethnicity on teacher hiring. First, we uncover robust evidence of discrimination: black and … show that program directors exhibit strong own-race preferences: white directors favor white applicants, while minority … employers of using race and ethnicity as signals of teacher productivity. …
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Measuring Customer Discrimination: Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816591
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American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?
Lee, Jungmin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring more black contestants attracts more black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703397
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Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763638
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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