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The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term non-employment have even been diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for working age men has nearly tripled over the last 50 years, generating a terrible social problem that is...
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, consumption levels, infrastructure, literacy or population density through 2002. This finding suggests that local recovery from …
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minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the … number of loans per employer business or loan amounts per employee, and the minority share of the population or businesses in … round of 2020. We find a stronger positive relationship between minority share and loan numbers or amounts to employer …
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instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … with required attendance provides frequent interactions with the TA. We find evidence that underrepresented minority … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …
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-up appointments in a low-income minority population in Baltimore City referred for possible eye disease. Between May 2017 and …
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are more effective is still unclear. In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority …
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This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
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Local pollution exposures disproportionately impact minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study … minority access to housing options in markets with significant sources of airborne chemical toxics. We find that renters with …
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emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
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