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Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of...

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Variance in Death and its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality

Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2009

Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …

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The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor : Gender Differences Among Top Earners, 1981-2012

Guvenen, Fatih - 2014

We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …

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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2010

lower income students. Also, the effects of class composition in terms of gender and ability appear to be inverse U …

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Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2011

Tiebout's classic 1956 paper has strong implications regarding stratification across and within jurisdictions, predicting in the simplest instance a hierarchy of internally homogeneous communities ordered by income. Typically, urban areas are less than fully stratified, and the question arises...

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"Last-Place Aversion" : Evidence and Redistributive Implications

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2011

Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory experiments, we find...

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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

Zheng, Siqi - 2011

In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...

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Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

Collins, Courtney - 2013

This paper examines schools' decisions to sort students into different classes and how those sorting processes impact student achievement. There are two potential effects that result from schools creating homogeneous classes--a "tracking effect," which allows teachers to direct their focus to a...

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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies : Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2013

We present evidence that benefits from agglomeration concentrate within race. Cross-sectionally, the black-white wage gap increases by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. Within cities, controlling for unobservable productivity through residential-tract-by-demographic...

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