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examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … experiments across several market and agent types to examine the nature and extent of discrimination. Our exploration includes …
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior - in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game … and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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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 present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …
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idiosyncratic, such as changes in the gender and racial composition of a grade in a school in adjacent years. I use specification … effects are stronger intra-race and that some effects do not operate through peers' achievement. For instance, both males and …
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, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured … workers with the same eventual performance, among both men and women. This may reflect taste discrimination. However, if … it is in these data), then these estimated differentials could reflect simple statistical discrimination. A test of …
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A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination …, including higher rates of depression and anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD. Therefore, understanding the role of discrimination in …-binary people face discrimination in mental healthcare markets. We provide the first experimental evidence, using an audit study, of …
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permits researchers to match individual students and teachers, to analyze issues relating to how a teacher's race, gender, and … ethnicity, per se, influence students from both the same and different race, gender, and ethnic groups. In contrast to much of … objectively how much their students learn. On balance, we find that teachers' race, gender, and ethnicity, per se, are much more …
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we … industrial composition of employment and in interindustry wage differentials on these gaps. The gender gap in pay was stable in … our review. Existing studies suggest that changes in wage structure. changing relative skill levels by race and sex. and …
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