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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G. - 2013
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three...
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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013
leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086680
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Minority Representation in Local Government
Beach, Brian - 2018
Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program
Mansur, Erin T. - 2019
emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889502
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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Among Sexual Minority Adults
Carpenter, Christopher S.; Sansone, Dario - 2021
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
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American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century : The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population
Hacker, J. David - 2013
Under the urging of late nineteenth-century humanitarian reformers, U.S. policy toward American Indians shifted from removal and relocation efforts to state-sponsored attempts to quot;civilizequot; Indians through allotment of tribal lands, citizenship, and forced education. There is little...
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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
. The association between segregated environments and minority disadvantage is driven in part by physical isolation of black …
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...
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