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Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

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Delivery care for Scheduled Tribe women in India : a disaggregated regional analysis

Paul, Lopamudra; Chellan, Ramesh - In: Artha vijñāna : journal of the Gokhale Institute of … 51 (2009) 3, pp. 297-314

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The health costs of ethnic distance : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Gomes, Joseph Flavian - 2014 - First Draft: September 2013; This draft: May 2014

We show that ethnic distances can explain the ethnic inequalities in child mortality rates in Africa. Using individual … fractionalization re ects a higher stock of knowledge and information leading to better health outcomes. Knowledge does not ow smoothly …

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Are Recessions Good for Everyone's Health? The Association between Mortality and the Business Cycle by Race in the U.S

Gonzalez, Fidel - 2013

In this paper we study the effect of the business cycle on the mortality rate of the major racial groups in the U ….S. Using county-level data from 1999 to 2005, we find that the unemployment rate is negatively related to mortality for whites … mortality and the business cycle identified in previous studies of the general U.S. population may vary by race …

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Racial and ethnic infant mortality gaps and the role of socio-economic status

Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 43 (2016), pp. 42-54

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Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks

Ganong, Peter - 2020

We study the consumption response to typical labor income shocks and investigate how these vary by wealth and race. First, we estimate the elasticity of consumption with respect to income using an instrument based on firm-wide changes in monthly pay. While much of the consumption-smoothing...

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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities

Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...

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Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks

Ganong, Peter; Jones, Damon; Noel, Pascal; Greig, Fiona; … - 2022

We estimate the elasticity of consumption with respect to income using an instrument based on firm-wide changes in pay. While much of the consumption-smoothing literature uses variation in unusual windfall income, this instrument captures the temporary income variation that households typically...

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What the students for fair admissions cases reveal about racial preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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