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House Prices and Birth Rates : The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2011

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The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2013

is important heterogeneity within minorities: black and Hispanics that live in areas with lower employment rates and that …

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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 Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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The Decline of African-American and Hispanic Wealth Since the Great Recession

Wolff, Edward N. - 2018

(0.19) but then fell to 0.14 in 2016, while that between Hispanics and whites climbed from 0.16 to 0.26 but then plunged … to 0.19. Minorities had much higher debt-net worth ratios in 2007 – 0.55 for blacks, 0.51 for Hispanics, and 0.18 for … for blacks and Hispanics than whites (by 0.120 and 0.093 Gini points, but AW inequality was considerably lower (by 0 …

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Vanished Classmates : The Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement on Student Enrollment

Dee, Thomas - 2018

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the federal law-enforcement agency with primary responsibility for enforcing immigration laws within the U.S. However, for over a decade, ICE has formed partnerships that also allow local police to enforce immigration law (i.e., identifying and...

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New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2017

U.S.-born Mexican Americans suffer a large schooling deficit relative to other Americans, and standard data sources suggest that this deficit does not shrink between the 2nd and later generations. Standard data sources lack information on grandparents' countries of birth, however, which creates...

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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication

Chatterji, Pinka - 2008

This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding...

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Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Health

Angelucci, Manuela - 2020

-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …

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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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