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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …

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The Interaction of Residential Segregation and Employment Discrimination

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …

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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...

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Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination : A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities

Salkever, David S. - 1997

Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored … heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this … approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of social …

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Beauty and the Labor Market

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1993

We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...

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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : A Study of South Carolina

Heckman, James J. - 1989

This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...

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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending

Dobbie, Will - 2018

This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for loan applicants from different groups at the...

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Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality : Evidence from GP Choice in England

Brown, Zach Y.; Hansman, Christopher; Keener, Jordan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presence of a website that publicly...

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Faith and Assimilation : Italian Immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...

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Exposure to a School Shooting and Subsequent Well-Being

Levine, Phillip B. - 2020

This paper examines the impact of school shootings on the educational performance and long-term health consequences of students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents. Initially, we focus on test scores in the years following a shooting. We also...

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