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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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Racial Protests and Credit Access
Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?
Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...
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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435105
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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design
Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...
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Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market : Patterns Over Time and Across Generations
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics...
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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...
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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality
Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...
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Career Expectations and Outcomes : Evidence (on Gender Gaps) from the Economics Job Market
McFall, Brooke Helppie; Parolin, Eric D.; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics. For … histories and publication records through 2022. We document four novel empirical facts: (1) there is a robust gender gap in …; (2) the gender gap in expectations is remarkably similar to the gap observed for academic outcomes; (3) expectations are …
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