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underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority groups by mentoring doctoral students and new Ph.D.s in economics. We compare professional …We conduct a long-run evaluation of one of the oldest professional mentoring programs for underrepresented groups in … economics, the American Economic Association Mentoring Program (AEAMP). The AEAMP was established to address the …
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. -- STEM majors ; minorities ; college graduation …
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to … expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus … results, with disproportionate minority presence. …
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underprivileged ethnic minority group (Santal) that is severely discriminated against. We randomly assign participants into groups … competitive entry and its effect varies by ethnic group. Members of the ethnic minority group are less likely to compete in groups … where they are a numerical minority than when all competitors are co-ethnic, whereas the reverse is true for members of the …
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When decision-makers overemphasize salient features under limited attention, biased decisions can result in settings in which decisions should be unbiased. We exploit a sudden shock in the salience of individuals of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands to test the vulnerability of decisions of...
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underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority groups by mentoring doctoral students and new Ph.D.s in economics. We compare professional …We conduct a long-run evaluation of one of the oldest professional mentoring programs for underrepresented groups in … economics, the American Economic Association Mentoring Program (AEAMP). The AEAMP was established to address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015409387
We analyze the long-term workforce composition when the quality of mentoring available to majority and minority juniors …-specific fellowships, are often needed, and the optimal workforce may include minority workers of lower innate talent than the marginal …
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school, eliminating 99% of observed same-race sorting. Race-matching raises minority students’ course performance as well as … more representative would benefit minority students with minimal negative spillovers to the White student population …
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the policy on the graduation rates for underrepresented minority (URM) students. It finds that the policy bolsters …
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