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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...

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Vanished Classmates : The Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement on Student Enrollment

Dee, Thomas - 2018

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the federal law-enforcement agency with primary responsibility for enforcing immigration laws within the U.S. However, for over a decade, ICE has formed partnerships that also allow local police to enforce immigration law (i.e., identifying and...

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Finders Keepers : Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets

Baicker, Katherine - 2004

In order to encourage anti-drug policing, both the federal government and many state governments have enacted laws that allow police agencies to keep a substantial fraction of assets that they seize in drug arrests. By adjusting their own allocations to police budgets, however, county...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Self-Selection, Prenatal Care, and Birthweight Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in New York City

Joyce, Theodore - 1990

, black infants would experience gains of 130 grams, whites 234 grams, and Hispanics 183 grams. The gains for adequate as …

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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification

Elder, Todd E. - 2019

We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are...

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The Decline of African-American and Hispanic Wealth since the Great Recession

Wolff, Edward N. - 2018

(0.19) but then fell to 0.14 in 2016, while that between Hispanics and whites climbed from 0.16 to 0.26 but then plunged … to 0.19. Minorities had much higher debt-net worth ratios in 2007 - 0.55 for blacks, 0.51 for Hispanics, and 0.18 for … for blacks and Hispanics than whites (by 0.120 and 0.093 Gini points, but AW inequality was considerably lower (by 0 …

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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...

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The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

Bayer, Patrick - 2013

is important heterogeneity within minorities: black and Hispanics that live in areas with lower employment rates and that …

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House Prices and Birth Rates : The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2011

This project investigates how changes in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)- level housing prices affect household fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in house...

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