"This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use...

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...

Kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Missverhältnis von Wirtschaftstheorien und Realität, Ansätze für eine Korrektur "institutioneller Verantwortungslosigkeit". Rezension (ekz): Hoffmann (Jahrgang 1946) möchte als Befürworter der Occupy-Bewegung konkrete Möglichkeiten für neues Denken...