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Racial Disparities in Savings Behavior for a Continuously Employed Cohort
Kuan, Kai Yuan - 2015
The wealth gap has reached record highs. At the same time there has been substantial proliferation of 401(k) savings accounts as the dominant retirement savings vehicle, and these accounts make up an increasing proportion of overall wealth. In this paper we examine 401(k) saving behavior of...
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Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective : A Brief Introduction
Boustan, Leah - 2014
The United States has a long and ongoing history of racial inequality. This paper surveys the literature on one aspect of that history: long-run trends in racial differences in health. We focus on standard measures such as infant mortality and life expectancy but also consider the available data...
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Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed
McCartan, Cory; Fisher, Robin; Goldin, Jacob; Ho, Daniel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The estimation of racial disparities in various fields is often hampered by the lack of individual-level racial … Instrumental Regression for Disparity Estimation (BIRDiE), that take BISG probabilities as inputs and produce racial disparity … estimates by using surnames as an instrumental variable for race. Our estimation method is scalable, making it possible to …
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena - 2005
We propose a simple model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests for whether troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, and whether they exhibit relative racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches. Our test of relative racial prejudice provides a partial solution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467421
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The National Rise in Residential Segregation
Logan, Trevon - 2015
This paper introduces a new measure of residential segregation based on individual-level data. We exploit complete census manuscript files to derive a measure of segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Our measure allows us to analyze segregation consistently and...
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459924
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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Do PCI Facility Openings Differentially Affect AMI Patients by Individual Race and Community Segregation?
Hsia, Renee Y.; Shen, Yu-Chu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Percutaneous coronary intervention facility openings may have differential effects on treatment and health outcomes for Black versus White patients in residentially segregated versus integrated communities. This study looked at changes in patient treatment and health outcomes (same-day PCI, PCI...
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