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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos
Evans, William N.; Topoleski, Julie H. - 2021
In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states. Today, there are over 310 gaming operations run by more than 200 of the nations' 556...
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American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century : The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population
Hacker, J. David - 2013
Under the urging of late nineteenth-century humanitarian reformers, U.S. policy toward American Indians shifted from removal and relocation efforts to state-sponsored attempts to quot;civilizequot; Indians through allotment of tribal lands, citizenship, and forced education. There is little...
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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013
leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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Minority Representation in Local Government
Beach, Brian - 2018
Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program
Mansur, Erin T. - 2019
emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G. - 2013
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three...
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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Among Sexual Minority Adults
Carpenter, Christopher S.; Sansone, Dario - 2021
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
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Native Americans’ Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA
Blanchflower, David G.; Feir, Donna - 2023
Four million Native Americans who identify as single race live in the USA. Another three million identify as Native American in combination with another race. Yet they are rarely the focus of detailed research. We provide the first evidence that levels of consistently poor mental health, or...
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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
Casella, Alessandra - 2014
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial … total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win … minority of 45 senators would be able to block between 20 and 35 percent of nominees. For most parameter values, the …
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