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Racial differences in fringe benefits and compensation

Mok, Wallace; Siddique, Zahra - 2009

This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...

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Racial and ethnic inequality in employer provided fringe benefits

Mok, Wallace; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life insurance and pension). Restricting to full-time workers in the private sector, we find that African Americans are significantly less likely to get fringe benefit offers than...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of drug therapy

Bowblis, John R.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2010

of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using … characteristics, while the sources of the utilization difference between the whites and Hispanics are split between the differences in …

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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons : a multinomial approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

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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Explaining gender-specific racial differences in obesity using biased self-reports of food intake

Burke, Mary A.; Heiland, Frank W. - 2011

Policymakers have an interest in identifying the differences in behavior patterns - namely, habitual caloric intake and physical activity levels - that contribute to demographic variation in body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk. While disparities in mean BMI and obesity rates between whites...

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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...

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Race, obesity, and the puzzle of gender specificity

Burke, Mary A. (contributor); Heiland, Frank (contributor) - 2008

Obesity is significantly more prevalent among non-Hispanic African-American (henceforth "black") women than among non]Hispanic white American (henceforth gwhiteh) women. These differences have persisted without much alteration since the early 1970s, despite substantial increases in the rates of...

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Gender identity, race, and ethnicity-based discrimination in access to mental health care : evidence from an audit correspondence field experiment

Fumarco, Luca; Harrell, Benjamin; Button, Patrick; … - 2023

extent to which transgender and non-binary people, African Americans, and Hispanics face discrimination in access to mental … Hispanics. We do not find evidence of discrimination against White transgender and non-binary prospective patients. We are … mostly inconclusive as to if cisgender African Americans or Hispanics face discrimination, except we find evidence of …

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