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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment
Lahey, Joanna - 2018
We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906457
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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
Card, David - 2019
We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868347
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918638
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The Adoption of Offset Presses in the Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States
Genesove, David - 2021
This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was determined, in part, by the structure of the local market. Although in monopoly markets, low circulation papers were quicker to adopt than high circulation papers, the ranking...
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“If You Compete with Us, We Shan't Marry You” the (Mary Paley and) Alfred Marshall Lecture
Pande, Rohini; Roy, Helena - 2023
Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley Marshall are often described as the first academic economist couple. Both studied at Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in economics, with Marshall’s encouragement. But in later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346412
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HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
econometric methods based on the propensity score to estimate the causal effect of HIV status on employment outcomes in South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127983
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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011
the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … employment circumstances of older workers. We find that these "exogenous" reforms can have a very large effect on the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130978
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money after 75 Years : The Importance of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
Luzzetti, Matthew N. - 2011
This paper studies why the General Theory had so much impact on the economics profession through the 1960s, why that impact began to wane in the 1970s, and why many economic policymakers cling to many of the tenets of the General Theory. We discuss three key elements along these lines, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131957
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The Decline in Black Teenage Labor Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970 : The Role of Schooling
Margo, Robert A. - 2010
Between 1950 and 1970 the labor force participation rate of southern black males aged 16-19 declined by 27 percentage points. This decline has been attributed to two demand-side shocks: the mechanization of cotton agriculture in the 1950s and extensions in the coverage of the federal minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139248
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Racial Inequality in the 21st Century : The Declining Significance of Discrimination
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139516