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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

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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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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …

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The strange career of Jim Crow : labor scarcity and discrimination in the American South

Larsen, Tim - 2015 - Preliminary and incomplete, this version: 8/19/15

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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2020

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …

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