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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008

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 …

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical … gender differentials in health. About 25-46% of the differentials in non-work physical activity can be attributed to …

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Who Suffers During Recessions?

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012

analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we …

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Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health : Evidence Using the Psid

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2010

. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age …

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Variance in Death and its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality

Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2009

Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...

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Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the Us in Relation to Levels of Income

Komlos, John - 2010

Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-1986, i.e., those who reached adulthood within the past decade...

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