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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Sanders, Seth - 2012
effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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The complexity of immigrant generations : implications for assessing the socioeconomic integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant … ; Asians …
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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia - 2007
capital. Startup capital and education alone explain from 65 percent to the entire gap in business outcomes between Asians and …
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Selection bias in historical housing data
Gray, Rowena - 2018
A new sample containing rental price and characteristic data for over 15,000 New York City units was collected from historical newspapers for the period 1880 to 1910. These units were geolocated to the historical map of Manhattan Island to explore their geographic coverage, using Geographic...
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Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria
Arefeva, Alina; Jowers, Kay; Hu, Qihui; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. A housing search model explains this result, showing that discrimination is worsened when landlords cannot evict tenants …
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Racial Rent Differences in U.S. Housing Markets
Early, Dirk W. - 2018
neighborhoods than their white counterparts and that this rent gap increases with the fraction of the neighborhood white. In …
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Does affirmative action lead to mismatch? : a new test and evidence
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Fang, Hanming; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 303-333
We argue that once we take into account the students’ rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiaries of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off ex ante can only occur if selective universities possess private information. Ex ante mismatch...
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The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States : a systematic literature review
Schotte, Simone; Leone, Tharcisio; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2023
This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action (AA) policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most influential national experiences: caste-based...
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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality
Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...
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The long-run impacts of banning affirmative action in US higher education
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2024
This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the...
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