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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences : The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement … in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights … are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585449
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What We Teach About Race and Gender : Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books
Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Books shape how children learn about society and social norms, in part through the representation of different characters. To better understand the messages children encounter in books, we introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data. We apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616571
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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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Racial Diversity in Private Capital Fundraising
Cassel, Johan; Lerner, Joshua; Yimfor, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Black- and Hispanic-owned funds control a very modest share of assets in the private capital industry. We find that the sensitivity of follow-on fundraising to fund performance is greater for minority-owned groups, particularly for underperforming groups. We find little support for a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388856
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Inequality and Racial Backlash : Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen's Bureau
Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How do majority groups respond to a narrowing of inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this question by examining the effects of the Freedmen's Bureau, an agency created after the U.S. Civil War to provide aid to former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. We...
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Edmans, Alex; Flammer, Caroline; Glossner, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper measures diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) using proprietary data on survey responses used to compile the Best Companies to Work For list. We identify 13 of the 58 questions as being related to DEI, and aggregate the responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287316
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Does Employing Skilled Immigrants Enhance Competitive Performance? Evidence from European Football Clubs
Glennon, Britta; Morales, Francisco; Carnahan, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
offers unusual transparency on the migration and hiring of talent and their contribution to collective performance. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696355
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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars : Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe … leagues of 14 Western European countries since 1985. We identify the effects of top earnings tax rates on migration using a … players. We start by presenting reduced-form graphical evidence showing large and compelling migration responses to country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462112
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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990
Collins, William J. - 2000
The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...
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