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The unequal distribution of economic education : a report on the race, ethnicity, and gender of economics majors at US colleges and universities
Bayer, Amanda; Wilcox, David W. - 2017
The distribution of economic education among US college graduates is quite unequal: female and underrepresented minority undergraduates, collectively, major in economics at 0.36 the rate that white, non-Hispanic male students do. This paper makes a four-part contribution to address this...
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Differences in risk tolerance and asset allocation among white, black, and hispanic households in the United States
Hisada, Takanori - In: International journal of economics and finance 10 (2018) 1, pp. 93-109
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The unequal distribution of economic education : a report on the race, ethnicity, and gender of economics majors at U.S. colleges and universities
Bayer, Amanda; Wilcox, David W. - In: The journal of economic education : JEE 50 (2019) 3, pp. 299-320
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198839
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Affirmative Action and Racial Diversity in U.S. Law Schools, 1980-2021
Brooks, Richard R. W.; Rozema, Kyle; Sanga, Sarath - 2023
We study racial diversity in American law schools and the impact of state-level bans on affirmative action. To do this, we assembled data on the number of students by minority status at every ABA-approved law school from 1980 to 2021. During this time, the share of minority law students tripled...
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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000
Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin … year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations. -- race … ; gender ; employment discrimination ; skin tone ; panel data …
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Race and Gender Income Inequality in the USA : Black Women vs. White Men
Kitov, Ivan - 2020
Income inequality between different races in the U.S. is especially large. This difference is even larger when gender …
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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945
This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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Black-white differences in schooling and employment
Rivkin, Steven G. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 30 (1995) 4, pp. 826-852
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Accounting for race and gender differences in college wage premium changes
Eide, Eric R. - In: Southern economic journal 63 (1997) 4, pp. 1039-1050
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Overlapping disadvantages and the racial/ethnic graduation gap among students attending selective institutions
Alon, Sigal - In: Social science research : a journal of social science … 36 (2007) 4, pp. 1475-1499
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