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This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
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allocation. In this paper, we make two contributions: (1) we examine the depiction of race and gender in award-winning children …
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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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This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...
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Using data unique to the European Community Household Panel survey (ECHP), we examine the hypothesis that self-employed workers spend more time caring for children than do those in other forms of employment. Focusing on ten western European countries, our results provide little support for the...
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race or ethnicity, even given initial differences in family structure, government benefit receipt, and employment. However …Household time and money allocations in response to income support programs vary across diverse family circumstances … race and ethnicity, where receipt is independent of eligibility based on other demographic characteristics. The effects of …
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that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee …
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We construct matched panel data sets of adult children with their parents to study the role of lagged parental attributes on subsequent home ownership decisions between 2000 and 2012. Earlier research has demonstrated inter-generational wealth transfers from parents to children are an important...
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Differences in the timing and pathway into family life provide insights into the social distance between majority and … group distinctions. We situate our study in Norway, a country on the forefront of family change with an increasingly diverse … evidence of generational shifts in the propensity to form a family via a nonmarital first birth, however, in some context …
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inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …
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