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to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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This paper offers the first birth-cohort test of the Wilson-Willis model of black-white differences in nonmarital childbearing. Cohort data are uniquely suited to the model, and unlike prior evidence, support the power of the model’s predictions: For blacks, the nonmarital birth share rises,...
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts …
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This paper examines some of the consequences for economic theory of the replacement of binary personal preferences by non-binary personal preferences in an Arrow-Debreu society as in Debreu (1959), and reaches the conclusion that there is both much damage to existing theory and greater...
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I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is …
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the regard human beings have for one another be it by gender, race, tribe or group has an impact on business and socio … integration, for example, of gender equality interfere with the ability of a CEO or leader to make decisions that are in the … interests of the institutions they manage and when is it a necessary active policy by which to improve gender equality? When …
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