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Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies

Balfe, Catherine; Button, Patrick; Penn, Mary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types …. We argue that when researchers use audit correspondence studies to measure discrimination against individuals that … attenuated (downwardly biased) estimates of discrimination …

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Systemic Discrimination : Theory and Measurement

Bohren, J. Aislinn; Hull, Peter; Imas, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Economics tends to define and measure discrimination as disparities stemming from the direct (causal) effects of … systemic (i.e. indirect) channels. For example, racial disparities in criminal records due to discrimination in policing can … for modeling and measuring both direct and systemic forms of discrimination. We define systemic discrimination as emerging …

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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...

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Non-Binary Gender Economics

Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-based discrimination and express different career and life aspirations, including less desire for children. Anti-non-binary sentiment is …

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Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality : Evidence from GP Choice in England

Brown, Zach Y.; Hansman, Christopher; Keener, Jordan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presence of a website that publicly...

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Consumption Segregation

Boar, Corina; Giannone, Elisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper introduces consumption segregation, a new margin of residential segregation, and examines its patterns, causes, and discusses its aggregate consequences. We use new longitudinal and highly granular data to measure consumption segregation in the United States and document that it is...

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...

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English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality : Evidence from 16 Million College Applicants in China

Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Mu, Kai; Wang, Shaoda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China's high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the rural-urban gap in college access. Leveraging...

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Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis : Evidence from Airbnb

Luca, Michael; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID … guests relative to hosts with distinctively White names. In contrast, we do not see spikes in discrimination against Black or … Hispanic hosts. Our results suggest that the rise in anti-Asian sentiment in 2020 translated to discrimination in economic …

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Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking : Evidence from Texas Public Schools

Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...

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