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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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Upward Mobility and Discrimination : The Case of Asian Americans
Hilger, Nathaniel G. - 2016
subsequently exhibit high income. I re-examine this puzzle in California, where most Asians settled historically. Asians achieved … prejudice data suggest low initial earnings for Asians, unlike blacks, reflected prejudice rather than skills. Post-war declines … in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …
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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration
Ozek, Umut - 2016
We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991687
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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study
Chatterji, Pinka; Alegria, Margarita; Lu, Mingshan; … - 2021
of mostly white, American born populations. Among Asians, we find mixed evidence that psychiatric disorders and mental …
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations : Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian - 2016
Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998956
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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