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Alsan, Marcella - 2016

For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study's methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical profession. To...

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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

Alsan, Marcella - 2018

We study the effect of diversity in the physician workforce on the demand for preventive care among African-American men. Black men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the U.S., and much of the disadvantage is due to chronic diseases which are amenable to primary...

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Persuasion in Medicine : Messaging to Increase Vaccine Demand

Alsan, Marcella; Eichmeyer, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

High-value preventive care is often underutilized. We study persuasion regarding the medical benefits of influenza vaccination by experimentally varying race concordance between sender and receiver, and, among Black respondents, a discordant sender's acknowledgement of historical injustice and...

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Race and Gender Pay Differentials

Blau, Francine D. - 1992

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...

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Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s : Gender Differences in Trends

Blau, Francine D. - 1991

This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...

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Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition

Blau, Francine D. - 1989

Using data from the 1976 and 1978 National Longitudinal. Surveys of young men and young women, this study examines racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and...

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Representation and Extrapolation : Evidence from Clinical Trials

Alsan, Marcella; Durvasula, Maya; Gupta, Harsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it is more representative of the...

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Women, Work, and Family

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

impact of home and family responsibilities, and constraints posed by workplace culture. We also consider the role that …This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household …

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Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development

Blau, Francine D. - 1990

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus...

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The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity : Evidence from the United States

Blau, Francine D. - 2002

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

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