School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

important to look at minority-specific effects of policies and institutions and not solely at the effects for the average …

In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian … firms versus between firms. Our results suggest that both male and female visible minority Canadian-borns experience …

In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …