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The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
In the 1960's, Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children. Over a short period of time in the early 1970's, that pattern changed dramatically with most Blacks (particularly those living in racially isolated neighborhoods) adopting increasingly distinctive names,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084737
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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
discrimination, and changes in the favorableness of supply and demand shifts. We find some evidence consistent with each of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084766
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The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height
Persico, Nicola; Silverman, Dan; Postlewaite, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual's height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085191
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Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans
Ashenfelter, Orley; Collins, William J.; Yoon, Albert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085195
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Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?
Neal, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
increased in absolute value since the late 1980s. I examine the potential importance of discrimination against skilled black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085296
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State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Lahey, Joanna N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Some anti-discrimination laws have the perverse effect of harming the very class they were meant to protect. This paper … provides evidence that age discrimination laws belong to this perverse class. Prior to the enforcement of the federal law … as a threat. After the enforcement of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1979, white male workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085335
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Colorism and African American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South
Ruebeck, Christopher Spiegelman; Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate into significant differences in outcomes. Data on more than 15,000 households interviewed during the 1860 federal census exhibit sharp differences in wealth holdings between white, mulatto, and black households in the urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085397
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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Ruebeck, Christopher Spiegelman; Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015572
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Why Don't Women Patent?
Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652814
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Krishna, Kala; Robles, Verónica C. Frisancho - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
mismatch. In addition, we present preliminary evidence on labor market discrimination. We find that admission preferences … have had if they had chosen a less selective major. Finally, although there is no evidence of discrimination against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401250