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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

Collins, William J. - 1999

also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …

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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …

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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith - 2005

with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …

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Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities

Aizer, Anna - 2004

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why poor women choose different providers than their richer neighbors. We exploit an exogenous change in policy that occurred in California in the early 1990s that suddenly increased...

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Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location : The Influence of John Kain

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore the effects of race on housing markets and …

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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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Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2000

Using data from yearbooks for 194 high schools, this study examines the degree of interracial contact in 8,875 high school teams and other organizations. Tabulations show that the degree of interracial exposure was typically less than what would occur if all organizations in each school had been...

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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...

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