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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …
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Geography and Racial Health Disparities
Chandra, Amitabh - 2003
An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes. We argue that the influence of geography in medical practice needs to be taken seriously for both the statistical measurement of racial disparities, and in designing reforms...
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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Race, Ethnicity and High-Cost Mortgage Lending
Bayer, Patrick - 2014
This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …
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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
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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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination
Agan, Amanda Y. - 2020
Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...
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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity
Wolfe, Barbara L. - 2013
agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they … overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity is no longer a "compelling state interest." But what lies behind a … those attending colleges and universities with greater diversity. Most existing studies are either based on evidence from …
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