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In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier...
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This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. The first part consist of a description and critique of the racial and ethnic categories used in the federal census and in the published vital...
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This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …–2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …
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whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …
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We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment … discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … to younger white applicants, and we find no evidence that the signal strength of the applicant's address varies by race …
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Race has long been recognized as playing a critical role in policing. In spite of this awareness, there has been … non-whites. Similarly arrests of non-whites, but do not systematically affect the number of white arrests. The race of … police officers has a less clear-cut impact on crime rates. It appears that own-race policing may be more effective in …
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We present a three-stage estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage, we estimate a non-parametric hedonic home price function. Second, we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first order conditions for...
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Many attempts to measure the wage effects of current labor market discrimination against minorities include controls for worker productivity that (1) could themselves be affected by market discrimination and (2) are very imprecise measures of worker skill. The resulting estimates of residual...
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effects are stronger intra-race and that some effects do not operate through peers' achievement. For instance, both males and …
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There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...
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