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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...
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lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …
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than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes. We argue that the influence of geography in medical practice needs to be taken seriously for both the statistical measurement of racial disparities, and in designing reforms...
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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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Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...
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may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
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agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they … overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity is no longer a "compelling state interest." But what lies behind a … those attending colleges and universities with greater diversity. Most existing studies are either based on evidence from …
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