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estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an … alternative measure. Second, although it is the race perceptions of market participants that matter, past studies rely exclusively … on researcher race/ethnicity assessment. The authors provide an estimation framework using continuous, market participant …
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. An examination of the data reveals differences in the characteristics and borrowing experience of small firms by race and …
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Prior research suggests that firms owned by women and minorities are smaller, less profitable, and less growth-oriented than those owned by white men. Prior research also suggests that firm performance is influenced by the firm owner's level of human capital in the form of education, employment...
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Analysts of survey data suggest that blacks are less approving of homosexuality than whites. We empirically test this hypothesis by analyzing the influence of homosexuals on house prices in neighborhoods with varying concentrations of black residents. We find that an additional homosexual couple...
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nursing home sorting. We find little evidence of differential willingness to pay for quality by race among first-time nursing … home entrants, but do find significant distance and race-based preference effects. Simulation exercises suggest that both …
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We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
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This paper examines the impact of financial deregulation on entrepreneurship. We assess the impact of credit card deregulation on transitions into self-employment using state-level removal of credit card interest rate ceilings following the US Supreme Court's 1978 Marquette decision as a...
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indicates that banks are less likely to locate in African American areas, but the results show that race is neither a positive …
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We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language associated with describing and viewing a unit, inviting further correspondence, making a formal greeting, and using polite language when replying to e-mail inquiries from a white name...
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This paper analyzes whether differences in nutritional outcomes between white and black children are related to disparities in socioeconomic status and how improvements in nutritional indicators for each racial group over time are associated with changes in household income, parent's education...
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