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Race and Bankruptcy : Explaining Racial Disparities in Consumer Bankruptcy
Morrison, Edward R. - 2019
7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy …
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Bankruptcy Shopping : Domestic Venue Races and Global Forum Wars
Casey, Anthony J.; Macey, Joshua - 2021
This Article proposes reforms to bankruptcy law’s venue rules. These reforms would expand venue choice, reduce opportunistic venue shopping, and account for the rise of global forum shopping. To date, the leading proposals to reform venue selection rules for bankruptcy cases have ignored...
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Racial Segregation and Audit Outcomes
Christensen, Hans; Maffett, Mark G.; Vetter, Felix - 2023
We identify endogenously formed same-race audit pairings based on the estimated race of audit partners and auditee executives in the nonprofit sector and show that these pairings occur at a significantly greater than random frequency. Using within auditor-year variation, we find that same-race...
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Measuring the Value of Rent Stabilization and Understanding its Implications for Racial Inequality : Evidence from New York City
Chen, Ruoyu; Jiang, Hanchen; Quintero, Luis - 2022
Rent stabilization is valuable to occupying tenants because it limits rent growth. Assessing the rent discount implied by this policy is challenging because the counterfactual rents that rent-stabilized units would command in the unregulated market are unobservable. Using novel data from 2002 to...
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Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality : evidence from New York City
Chen, Ruoyu; Jiang, Hanchen; Quintero, Luis E. - 2022
Assessing rent discounts implied by rent regulation is challenging because the counterfactual rents of regulated units in the unregulated market are not observed. We estimate these counterfactual rents and predict the quality-adjusted rent discount for each rent-stabilized unit in New York City...
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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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Is there discriminatory mortgage pricing against immigrants in the Spanish lending market?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Raya, Josep Maria - 2011
discrimination. Our results indicate that approximately two thirds of the gap in the interest rate between Spanish born and immigrant …
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Discrimination against migrants in Austria : an experimental study
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2015
matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria. …
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Affirmative action or just discrimination? : a study on the endogenous emergence of quotas
Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016 - This version: 16 February 2016
Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...
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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap
Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016
Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
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