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The French Zones D'Education Prioritaire: Much Ado About Nothing?
Bénabou, Roland; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels additional resources to schools in disadvantaged areas and encourages the development of new teaching projects. Focusing on middle-schools, we first evaluate the impact of the...
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Multi-battle contests
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component … contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each …
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NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is …
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Applying relevant ethical theories to equality
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the regard human beings have for one another be it by gender, race, tribe or group has an impact on business and socio …
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release
Mechoulan, Stéphane; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational choice model of release whereby a parole board must balance parolees' risk of violation with the cost of not releasing prisoners who may not violate their parole. A color-blind...
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G.; Pager, Devah; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …
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The role of neighborhood characteristics in mortgage default risk: evidence from New York City
Chan, Sewin; Gedal, Michael; Been, Vicki; Haughwout, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of black residents, regardless of the borrower’s own race. We explore possible explanations for this second finding and …
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