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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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Poverty Persistence in Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114417
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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists
Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509469
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Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release
Mechoulan, Stéphane; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational choice model of release whereby a parole board must balance parolees' risk of violation with the cost of not releasing prisoners who may not violate their parole. A color-blind...
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321839
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Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why minority workers have worse labor-market outcomes than majority workers. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing support in getting a job, we develop a...
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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children
Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Using the same approach we also find that income growth is negatively affected by the …
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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493553
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Ethnic Identity and Social Distance in Friendship Formation
De Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We analyze a model of network formation with agents that belong to different communities and an endogenous cost structure. Both individual benefits and costs depend on direct as well as indirect connections. Benefits of an indirect connection decrease with distance in the network, while the cost...
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