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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification

Elder, Todd E. - 2019

We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are...

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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...

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What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2016

This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost...

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Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths : Seeking Economic Roots with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2020

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3,140 counties. For all minorities, the minority's population share is strongly correlated with total COVID-19 deaths. For Hispanic/Latino and...

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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of … held by Hispanic poor English speakers are most important for the employment of these less-skilled Hispanics than for other … Hispanics. This evidence is consistent with labor market networks being an important influence on the employment of less …

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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States

Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021

This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...

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Native Americans’ Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA

Blanchflower, David G.; Feir, Donna - 2023

Four million Native Americans who identify as single race live in the USA. Another three million identify as Native …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948

Feigenbaum, James - 2018

In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United States fell precipitously. Although this decline is well-known and well-documented, there is surprisingly little evidence about whether it took place uniformly across the regions of the U.S. We...

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Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962-2013 : What Happened Over the Great Recession?

Wolff, Edward N. - 2014

Asset prices plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013. The most telling finding is that median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010, almost double the drop in housing prices. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of little movement, was...

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