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The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest,...
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's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … criticisms and extensions of the standard Becker model, including an argument of our own which, like some recent work, shows that …
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Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that...
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fundamental challenges faced by empirical work in this area. Specifically, for work devoted to measuring whether and how much … of study. For work seeking to arbitrate empirically between the two main alternative theoretical explanations for such … recent and much less common. We highlight problems with both approaches. Throughout, we discuss recent work, which, the …
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mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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