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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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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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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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What Do We Really Know About Food Security?
Cafiero, Carlo - 2013
Many discussions following the 2007/08 food price crisis have revolved around the magnitude of the negative impacts that it may have had on food security worldwide. Analysts have been asked to provide timely assessments, often based on partial data and information. The variety of opinions and...
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake cannot be determined, due to: a lack of consensus on...
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