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Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy : Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960
Donohue, John, III. - 1998
Improvements in educational attainment and in educational quality are universally acknowledged to be major contributors to black economic progress in the twentieth century. The sources of these improvements are less well understood. Many scholars implicitly assume improvements in schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472390
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks : Why are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2007
We characterize the macroeconomic performance of a set of industrialized economies in the aftermath of the oil price shocks of the 1970s and of the last decade, focusing on the differences across episodes. We examine four different hypotheses for the mild effects on inflation and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465282
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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013
Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459313
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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply a Regression Discontinuity based approach to screen for collusion developed in Kawai et al. (2022) to public procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than those who lose by a very small margin in the...
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Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation : Evidence from Causal Text Estimation
Hochberg, Yael V.; Kakhbod, Ali; Li, Peiyao; Sachdeva, Kunal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337825
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Non-Binary Gender Economics
Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512076
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work
DeLeire, Thomas - 2001
measurement of trends in occupation segregation by gender, very little work has focused on the underlying job choice process that … suggest that women choose safer jobs than men. Within gender, we find that single moms or dads are most averse to fatal risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470142
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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States
Gosling, Amanda - 2001
This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470305
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Social Security as a Financial Asset : Gender-Specific Risks and Returns
Baxter, Marianne - 2001
individuals who differ according to gender; education; race; and age. The main finding is that there are important differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470395