Roma account for almost one-tenth of the population in the Slovak Republic. They live mostly excluded from the general … exclusion in almost all aspects of everyday life. Only a small share of Roma work, and a majority suffer from long spells of … rising general animosity and mistrust between Roma and non-Roma groups. This calls for immediate policy action. The …

and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we … survey data collected in Roma communities in four Central and Eastern European countries lends support to the explanation …. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member …

is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor in comparison to the non-Roma population. The results suggest … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

This study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non-Roma … study focuses on the interaction between exposure to the other ethnic group and academic achievement of Roma students. High …-achieving Roma students are shown to have significantly more friends and fewer adversaries than low-achieving ones, due to better …

This paper uses birth records linked to census data to document health differences at birth between Roma and non-Roma … indicators over the 30 years, with a small narrowing of the gap in absolute terms but not in relative terms. Roma mothers are … attainment, especially at higher levels, may have the highest potential to improve the relative health of Roma births. …

and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we … survey data collected in Roma communities in four Central and Eastern European countries lends support to the explanation …. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member …

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that Roma in less segregated areas tend to have significantly fewer … children (around 0.9). Most of the difference arises from Roma in less segregated areas waiting substantially more after having …

discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials …' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further … discovering discrimination. However, an ethnic minority background is often perceived to be associated with low socioeconomic …

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known …, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together … discrimination. …