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Analyzing Florida birth certificates matched to school records, we document that the female advantage in childhood behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we investigate whether family...
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employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with …
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Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … or individual self-reports. In contrast to these disease based measures, health of American men appears to be superior to …
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We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self …-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to …-employment. For black men, we find that the self-employment rate remained at a level of roughly one-third the white rate from 1910 to …
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men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing older black men to other demographic … inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to … and white men and 25% of the gap between black men and women …
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We investigate the potential welfare cost of relative rank considerations using a series of vignettes and lab-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are perceived as more likely to be sidelined from...
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%, and threatening behavior by 46%. A rapport-building treatment has an insignificant aggregate effect, but may affect men …
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This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider a similar setting, testing for statistical...
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In the 1960's, Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children. Over a short period of time in the early 1970's, that pattern changed dramatically with most Blacks (particularly those living in racially isolated neighborhoods) adopting increasingly distinctive names,...
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