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Covid-19 : Testing Inequality in New York City

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie - 2020

Motivated by reports in the media suggesting unequal access to Covid-19 testing across incomes, we analyze zip-code level data on the number of Covid-19 tests, test results, and income per capita in New York City. We find that the number of tests administered is evenly distributed across income...

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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 …

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Sorting or Steering : Experimental Evidence on the Economic Effects of Housing Discrimination

Christensen, Peter - 2018

Housing discrimination is illegal. However, paired-tester audit experiments have revealed evidence of discrimination in … Discrimination Study and micro-level data on key attributes of neighborhoods in 28 US cities, we find strong evidence of … discrimination in the characteristics of neighborhoods towards which individuals are steered. Conditional upon the characteristics of …

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Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability

Leight, Jessica - 2018

Community targeting of vote payments -- defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections -- is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to demonstrate that, relative to individual targeting,...

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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination

Craig, Ashley C. - 2017

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

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Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action : A Survey

Fang, Hanming - 2010

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009

In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...

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Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2009

We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiary of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off could occur only if selective universities possess private information about students'...

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Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

Feler, Leo - 2008

Localities in developed countries often restrict construction and population growth through regulations governing land usage, lot sizes, building heights, and frontage requirements. In developing countries, such policies are less effective because of the existence of unregulated, informal...

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An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I

Moser, Petra - 2008

A significant challenge to empirically testing theories of discrimination has been the difficulty of identifying taste …-based discrimination and of distinguishing it clearly from statistical discrimination. This paper addresses this problem through a two …-part empirical test of taste-based discrimination. First, it constructs measures of revealed preferences, which establish that World …

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