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Beauty, Job Tasks, and Wages : A New Conclusion about Employer Taste-Based Discrimination

Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2018

We use novel data from the Berea Panel Study to reexamine the labor market mechanisms generating the beauty wage … premium. We find that the beauty premium varies widely across jobs with different task requirements. Specifically, in jobs … enhancing attribute--those that require substantial amounts of interpersonal interaction--a large beauty premium exists. In …

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The Economics of Aesthetics and Three Centuries of Art Price Records

Goetzmann, William - 2014

Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation--both in the time series and in the cross- section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...

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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence

Knowles, John - 1999

African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...

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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia - 2005

layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and …

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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men

Gan, Li - 2004

This paper investigates to what extent the differences in education between black and white men can be explained by the differences in their mortality risks. A dynamic optimal stopping-point life cycle model is examined, in which group-level mortality risk plays an important role in determining...

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New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education : The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools is not an accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government and family choices. While the goals of the integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of...

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The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2001

We explore the extent to which the huge race gap in wealth can be explained with properly constructed income and …

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Race Matters : Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races

Akee, Randall - 2017

This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …-2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …

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