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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach

Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review select literature on racial and ethnic disparities in retirement outcomes and the impact of outreach on such outcomes. First, there are significant disparities in retirement outcomes, reflecting a long history of racism and structural barriers. Second, there is comparatively little...

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Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States

Lahey, Joanna; Mosquera, Roberto M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...

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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment

Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effects of job-protected leave policies on intergenerational mobility, long-run child outcomes, and parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on family leave policies across the United States since 1973...

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The Right Amount of Trust

Butler, Jeffrey - 2009

We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert - 2005

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican … Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population … census, we show that neither industrial composition nor differences in the age and education of Mexican born populations …

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data from 26 countries. First, we map and characterize the geography of IM. There is substantial variation both across and within countries with differences in literacy of the old...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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The Demand for Sons : Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2004

This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are significantly more likely to be divorced, that...

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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income (perhaps because of trade shocks), the social costs of...

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