We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education - it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

magnitude to that of factors such as income and education, long recognized as crucial in the existing literature. Third, the …

in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …. However, disparities in income benefits are at lower levels of education. Men and women have similar income benefits at the … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender …

richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as …

(NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … persistent disparities in the regional unemployment rates. Through standard kernel density tecnhiques, we demonstrate the … natural rates. Our findings confirm that the evolution of regional disparities cannot be attributed to disparities in the …