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than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race … adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race … characterized as quot;whitequot;. When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …
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Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little … empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about … the plight of mixed race individuals during their adolescence and early adulthood. As one might expect, on a host of …
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This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …
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We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … the levels of education between race-ethnic groups--from two-thirds to 85 percent for men and about half for women. We … calculate the expected present discounted value (EPDV) of an immediate annuity with first payout at age 66 for persons by gender …
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lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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Using data from the 1976 and 1978 National Longitudinal. Surveys of young men and young women, this study examines racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and...
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also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …
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