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The past century has witnessed limited and an acute sexual difference in black/white intermarriages. For example, in 2000, 9.63 percent of black males' marriages involve white spouses while it was 3.84 percent for black females. In this paper, I formulate and estimate a decision model of...
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a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …
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a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality … increases and between race inequality decreases redistribution. … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata.  Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970.  For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries,...
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increasing levels of education and relative declines in the age distribution of the workforce for some minority groups …
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We explore relationships among BMI variation, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century US. There was an inverse … relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. After controlling … for wealth and inequality, farmers had greater BMI values than workers in other occupations, and blacks had greater BMI …
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In the United States, race and ethnicity are considered key social determinants of health because of their enduring … making progress toward reducing racial/ethnic inequalities in health. While race/ethnic disparities in infant and adult … outcomes are well documented, less is known about patterns and trends by race/ethnicity among children. Our objective was to …
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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and … disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality …/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a qualitative study which generated interviews with students, employers and higher education …
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