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Immigration to democratic nations generates new groups of potential voters. This paper investigates how the electorate share of immigrant groups influences their likelihood of becoming politically mobilized, focusing on the mechanism of coalition formation with the Democratic Party. Using newly...
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whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon. …
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This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and white cohorts who reached middle and late ages in the twentieth century. Blacks faced a greater risk of death from all causes, especially in large cities, from infectious and...
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grows rapidly in the early school years, particularly in reading, after correction for measurement error, the education …-scaled gap is large, exceeds the actual black-white education gap and is roughly constant. Strikingly, the gap in all grades is …
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Analysts often examine the black-white test score gap conditional on family income. Typically only a current income measure is available. We argue that the gap conditional on permanent income is of greater interest, and we describe a method for identifying this gap using an auxiliary data set to...
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proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university and other forms of post-secondary education. Our results indicate …-white difference in enrollment. Controlling for parental education and baseline scholastic ability reduces the estimated impact of … without changing parental education or high school academic achievement. The racial gap in university enrollment would narrow …
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Understanding whether racial attitudes are malleable is critical for addressing the underlying causes of racial discrimination. We examine whether white males' stated attitudes and behavior toward African Americans change based on the number and type of black peers to whom they are exposed. To...
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decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …
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This paper reviews the literature on affirmative action in undergraduate education and law schools, focusing in … turns to a similar discussion of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions, focusing on evidence of the extent of race …
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Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine the effect of order-preserving scale transformations...
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