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The dynamics of referral hiring and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil
Miller, Conrad; Schmutte, Ian - 2021
to hire candidates and less likely to dismiss employees of the same race as the founder, but these differences diminish …
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Stigmatization and racial selection after September 11, 2001 : self-identity among Arab and Islamic Americans
Mason, Patrick L.; Matella, Andrew - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
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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Unveiling the Cosmic Race : Racial Inequalities in Latin America
Woo-Mora, L. Guillermo - 2021
'mulatos' —the mixed-race descendent from European, Indigenous, and African population. However, Latin American countries have … veiled income inequalities between racial groups through mestizaje identity or the 'Cosmic Race'. Using LAPOP … taxation in income or 'tagging' could decrease race-based disparities and improve economic development …
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How Racial Measures Affect the Estimation of Racial Inequality
Rademakers, Robbert; van Hoorn, André - 2022
’ race. Analyzing the same set of individuals, results confirm that estimated racial inequalities vary greatly depending on … the measure of race considered. The endogeneity of measured race with respect to socioeconomic status seems to account for … part of the variation in estimated racial inequalities across the four race measures …
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The Demographics of Death : An Early Look at COVID-19, Cultural and Racial Bias in America
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2021
the fundamental racism in U.S. culture and public policy. The virus does not care about personal wealth, religion, or race …
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Average gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions : a cautionary tale about regression estimates of racial differences in labor market outcomes
Słoczyński, Tymon - 2018
In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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Racial Differences in Politician Persistence
Wang, Xiaohong - 2023
This paper explores the racial differences in politicians’ persistence in elections. Empirical data from California city council elections and a close election regression dis- continuity design (CERDD) suggest that losing an election causes 70% attrition in rerunning for office. After a loss,...
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Changing ingroup boundaries: the effect of immigration on race relations in the US
Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
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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Incentives to identify: a comment
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
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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