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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...

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Racial disparities in health care utilization, the affordable care act and racial concordance preference

Ma, Alyson; Sanchez, Alison; Ma, Mindy - In: International journal of health economics and management 22 (2022) 1, pp. 91-110

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Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation

Mok, Wallace - 2009

-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …

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College is Not Enough : Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps

Emmons, William R. - 2019

Differences in college and post-graduate degree attainment alone explain less than half of Black-White and Hispanic-White wealth gaps in a standard wealth regression. Differences in family structure and measures of luck such as income windfalls and inheritances explain even less. Measures of...

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Race and Bankruptcy : Explaining Racial Disparities in Consumer Bankruptcy

Morrison, Edward R. - 2019

African American bankruptcy filers are more likely to select Chapter 13 than other debtors, who opt instead for Chapter 7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy attorneys. We present an alternative explanation:...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities : evidence from Brazil

Pereira, Igor; Patel, Pankaj - In: Small business economics : an international journal 58 (2022) 2, pp. 769-805

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What Accounts for Racial and Ethnic Differences in Credit Use?

Goodstein, Ryan - 2020

Credit use varies widely among U.S. households; racial and ethnic differences are particularly striking. We examine whether household and residential-area characteristics can account for differences in use of bank credit (e.g., credit cards) and nonbank credit (e.g., payday loans). We use a...

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Dynamic Racial Triangulation : Examining the Racial Order Using an Experiment on Discrimination by White Millennials

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2020

the racial attitudes and race-based actions of this group. Our overarching goals in this paper are to uncover the racial …

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