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Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

Neumark, David - 2015

age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …

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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...

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Divergent : The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA) receive. Using data on Harvard applications over...

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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States : A Comparison Based on Administrative Data

Mitnik, Pablo A.; Helsø, Anne-Line Koch; Bryant, Victoria - 2022

We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United States. We adopt a luck-egalitarian understanding of IOp, use high-quality administrative data, and rely on highly improved methods. These include novel identification assumptions...

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Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis : Evidence from Airbnb

Luca, Michael; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2022

We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID … guests relative to hosts with distinctively White names. In contrast, we do not see spikes in discrimination against Black or … Hispanic hosts. Our results suggest that the rise in anti-Asian sentiment in 2020 translated to discrimination in economic …

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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2022

This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...

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Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science

Fisman, Raymond - 2017

We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to fellow selection committee members increase candidates' election probability by 39 percent, coming entirely from the...

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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination

Craig, Ashley - 2017

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : a Study of South Carolina

Heckman, James J. - 2015

status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment …

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Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy : Evidence from French Grocery Stores

Glover, Dylan - 2016

Examining the performance of cashiers in a French grocery store chain, we find that manager bias negatively affects minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different managers on different days and their schedules are determined quasi-randomly. When minority cashiers,...

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