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Race : China's question and problem
Fennell, Vera Leigh - In: The review of black political economy 40 (2013) 3, pp. 245-275
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Illiberal economic institutions and racial intolerance in the United States
Wright, Walker - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 42 (2022) 2, pp. 307-326
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Stereotypes of physical appearance and labor market chances
Araï, Mahmood; Gartell, Marie; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, … - 2016
Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...
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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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Stakeholders' aversion to inequality and bank lending to minorities
Crosignani, Matteo; Le, Hanh - 2023
We find that banks differ in their propensity to lend to minorities based on their stakeholders' aversion to inequality. Using mortgage application data collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, we document a large and persistent cross-sectional variation in banks' propensity to lend to...
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282571
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. -- race ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523520
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820685
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807784