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-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in … race and cohort differences exist in the Black-White self-employment gap. A subgroup of U.S. born African-Americans have a …
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Although the idea that individuals’ race is fluid and can change over time is increasingly accepted, racial identities … hinder or foster changes in individuals’ ascribed or externally-assigned race. Focusing on the likelihood of non-Whites in …
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, we test for heterogeneity across race and skill level in the gender gap in homeownership and the probability of … differences. Our results also suggest significant heterogeneity across race and skill level in homeownership probabilities for …
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To what extent do U.S. law school demographics concerning gender, race, and ethnicity reflect the same demographics of … target populations with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity. The ultimate conclusion of the forthcoming paper is that the …
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index that measures the economic activity of racial demographic groups in the U.S., called Economic Activity by Race (EAR …
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How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of other minorities as in- or...
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After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s a period when the labor market rewards for education were increasing. This presents an important puzzle for economists. In this chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic models...
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Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
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During the 2000s Arab and Islamic American racial identity selection was subjected to an exogenous racializing event, viz., public and private reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the...
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We examine how gender, racial, and ethnic variation in unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt changed over time in the U.S. economy and how these changes are influenced by shifts in the occupational and industrial composition of employment. Using Current Population Survey (CPS)...
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