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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study
Chatterji, Pinka - 2005
of mostly white, American born populations. Among Asians, we find mixed evidence that psychiatric disorders and mental …
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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration
Özek, Umut - 2016
We make use of a new data source - matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida - to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations : Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian - 2016
Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases...
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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Upward Mobility and Discrimination : The Case of Asian Americans
Hilger, Nathaniel - 2016
subsequently exhibit high income. I re-examine this puzzle in California, where most Asians settled historically. Asians achieved … prejudice data suggest low initial earnings for Asians, unlike blacks, reflected prejudice rather than skills. Post-war declines … in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455932
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Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis : Evidence from Airbnb
Luca, Michael; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DiD approach, we find that hosts with distinctively Asian names experienced a 12 percent decline in guests relative to hosts with distinctively White...
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After the Burning : The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Albright, Alex; Cook, Jeremy A.; Feigenbaum, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of 35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe economic loss, but the massacre also sent a warning to Black individuals across the country that similar events were possible in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599275
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Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Card, David - 2007
In a classic paper, Schelling (1971) showed that extreme segregation can arise from social interactions in white preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical "tipping point," all the whites leave. We use regression discontinuity methods and Census tract data from...
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The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots : Evidence from Property Values
Collins, William J. - 2004
In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. This paper examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468200
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Where Did All The Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict, and Growth Collapses
Rodrik, Dani - 1998
This paper argues that domestic social conflicts are a key to understanding why growth rates lack persistence and why so many countries have experienced a growth collapse after the mid-1970s. It emphasizes conflicts interact with external shocks on the one hand, and the domestic institutions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472466