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Social Structure and Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Moscona, Jacob - 2018
to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453504
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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data
Meyer, Bruce D.; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172177
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Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care : Preliminary Evidence from a Multi-Wave Audit Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2020
A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination across many contexts, including healthcare. Simultaneously, transgender individuals face various mental health disparities, including higher rates of depression and anxiety,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482383
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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race
Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462213
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Variance in Death and Its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality
Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2009
Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...
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Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health : Evidence Using the PSID
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2009
. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age …
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Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income
Komlos, John - 2009
Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-1986, i.e., those who reached adulthood within the past decade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464014
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464674
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The American High School Graduation Rate : Trends and Levels
Heckman, James J. - 2007
decline of high school graduation rates by gender helps to explain the recent increase in male-female college attendance gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464974
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Social Identity and Preferences
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2007
identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465341