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equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …
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crime for black than for white males. In 1996, for example, the property crimes arrest rate by race (per 1.000 people) was … agents to be heterogeneous along four dimensions: race (synthesised by the labour market opportunities), education … racial groups. The model is in turn used both to understand to what extent the patterns in the race wage differentials can …
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Differences in college and post-graduate degree attainment alone explain less than half of Black-White and Hispanic-White wealth gaps in a standard wealth regression. Differences in family structure and measures of luck such as income windfalls and inheritances explain even less. Measures of...
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This paper examines the relationship between wealth holdings and patterns of various household characteristics, including education, occupation, wealth portfolio structures and inheritance. The focus is on comparing the wealth levels of Black and White Americans, and relating differences in...
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The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...
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instances, and proposed a model statute to address appropriate applications of citizen’s arrest. But I did not discuss race … citizen’s arrest doctrine, it is clear that citizen’s arrest in this country has been mostly about race. Coupled with the …
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This study uses survey data on small business loans granted 2022 -2023 to explore racial disparities in the terms of loans to small firms. Similar data has not been available since the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF). We find that for Hispanic-, Asian American- and Black-owned...
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ethnic groups. Understanding these disparities requires accurate measures of race and ethnicity of people involved in the … justice system. We document how race and ethnicity are recorded by administrative agents and how operational concerns limit … corrections to misreported race and ethnicity. To understand the impacts of these administrative processes, this paper uses novel …
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evidence suggests a link between race and the militarization of police, empirical analysis has yet to be performed. In this …
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