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We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race … adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race … characterized as quot;whitequot;. When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is …
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …
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This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...
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Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little … empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about … the plight of mixed race individuals during their adolescence and early adulthood. As one might expect, on a host of …
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accurate the measures of prices used to deflate nominal output so as to win (or at least not lose) the race for economic …
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whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …
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This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …
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