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fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic … modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …
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An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …
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An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …
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Using a novel dataset provided by the Connecticut Department of Health (CTDoH), this manuscript shows the necessity for …
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other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …
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Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
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In this dissertation, three studies examine how taken-for-granted assumptions around how researchers measure race …-adulthood, highlighting race-based variations in life-cycle biases.In chapter 4, I examine the effect of college sector on wealth and debt …
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This paper uses block-group data from the US decennial censuses to document changes in concentrated poverty. It provides several substantive and methodological lessons. First, the majority of poor sub-county areas were located (and hidden) in low poverty counties. Second, the 1990s brought large...
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