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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119780
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082419
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908823
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870725
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019111
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Self-Selection, Prenatal Care, and Birthweight Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in New York City
Joyce, Theodore - 2021
, black infants would experience gains of 130 grams, whites 234 grams, and Hispanics 183 grams. The gains for adequate as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212903
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Cameron, Stephen V.; Heckman, James J. - 2022
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...
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What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders
Bayer, Patrick J. - 2016
This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998416
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150734
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833112