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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464427
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Aging, religion, and health
Deaton, Angus S. - 2009
Durkheim's famous study of suicide is a precursor of a large contemporary literature that investigates the links between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463380
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
Dominitz, Jeff - 1996
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473152
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith - 2007
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465574
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334326
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Health Inequality and Economic Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Russo, Nicolo; McGee, Rory; De Nardi, Mariacristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … find staggering health inequality: At age 55, Black men and women have the frailty, or biological age, of White men and … and Hispanic people uncovers even larger health gaps, especially for Black men. Health inequality also emerges as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072912
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Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care : Preliminary Evidence from a Multi-Wave Audit Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2020
A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination across many contexts, including healthcare. Simultaneously, transgender individuals face various mental health disparities, including higher rates of depression and anxiety,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482383
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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender
Hu, Luojia - 2005
This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467198
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Peer Effects in the Classroom : Learning from Gender and Race Variation
Hoxby, Caroline - 2000
Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470876
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Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex
Neumark, David - 1998
This paper attempts to test whether information problems in labor markets can explain why minority or female workers are sometimes paid less than equally-qualified white male workers. In particular, the relationship between starting wages, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472236