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Disconnected : the unequal impact of online learning on minority students

Gershoni, Naomi; Stryjan, Miri - 2026

Online instruction holds the promise of expanding access to education for disadvantaged groups, yet it often deepens existing performance gaps. This study examines its impact on highstakes exam outcomes, focusing on mechanisms driving differential effects for minority students. We leverage rich...

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Identity and cooperation in multicultural societies

Montinari, Natalia; Ploner, Matteo; Rattini, Veronica - 2026

This paper studies whether alternative integration-policy framings affect cooperation in ethnically diverse groups. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with 390 adolescents in mixed classrooms in Italy. Within each class, students were randomly assigned to small groups that received either...

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Identity and cooperation in multicultural societies

Montinari, Natalia; Ploner, Matteo; Rattini, Veronica - 2026

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Education and selection into ethnic identification : evidence from Roma people in Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Matache, Margareta - 2026

How does ethnic identification vary with education among disadvantaged minorities? We study this question for Roma people, Europe's largest ethnic minority, using linked Romanian census data and birth records. We measure how individuals change reported ethnicity over time, or "pass." Roma...

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Education and Selection into Ethnic Identification : Evidence from Roma People in Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Matache, Margareta - 2025

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Trends and patterns in childlessness by age, race, ethnicity, and education in the United States : a research note

Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel; Root, Leslie; Alexander, Monica - 2026

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Mapping mobility and opportunity : how place, gender, and ethnicity shape economic outcomes in Ecuador

Brunori, Paolo; Pozo, Diego del; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Integrating administrative data from the civil registry, social security, and national censuses, we provide novel evidence on intergenerational income mobility and equality of opportunity among 514,890 formal workers in Ecuador. Our results show substantial intergenerational mobility (rank-rank...

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Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India : evidence from 1.5m neighborhoods

Asher, Sam; Jha, Kritarth; Novosad, Paul; Adukia, Anjali; … - 2026

We study residential segregation and access to public services across 1.5 million urban and rural neighborhoods in India. Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is high by global standards, and only slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the U.S. Within cities, public facilities...

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Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India : evidence from 1.5m neighborhoods

Asher, Sam; Jha, Kritarth; Novosad, Paul; Adukia, Anjali; … - 2026

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Intergenerational earnings persistence across ethnicities

Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David C. - 2026

We estimate intergenerational earnings persistence for 6 ethnic groups using linked administrative data for approximately 288,000 individuals in New Zealand born between 1986 and 1992. Linking data from administrative datasets, censuses, and surveys, we focus on 198,000 parent-child pairs...

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State capacity and identity : assimilation vs resistance of tribal rimlands

Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2026

While the populations of wealthy modern states primarily identify with their nation, middle- and low-income countries often contain large populations that adhere to distinct subnational identities. We model a central government elite that has a conflictual relationship with its “tribal...

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How costly are cultural biases? : evidence from FinTech

D'Acunto, Francesco; Ghosh, Pulak; Rossi, Alberto G. - 2026

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Asymmetric decentralization : nature and determinants

Lago Peñas, Santiago; Cadaval Sampedro, María; … - 2026

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Anatomy of US inequality

Galor, Oded; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2026

Is income inequality in the United States primarily driven by disparities between ethnic groups or within them? The evidence reveals a striking pattern: 96% of U.S. income inequality arises from variation within groups sharing common ancestral origins, far overshadowing the comparatively small...

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Anatomy of US Inequality

Galor, Oded; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2025

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The enclave penalty : tribes, caste, and electricity reliability in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2026

India has achieved near-universal electrification, yet large inequalities persist in the reliability of the electricity supply. Combining high-resolution satellite-based measures of electricity reliability - defined as the share of nights with detectable illumination - with village-level census...

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Long-term trends in racial and ethnic reporting and representation in US Alzheimer's clinical trials

Lin, Zhuoer; Sun, Ruochen; Ross, Joseph R.; Lau, Kien; … - 2026

Alzheimer's disease (AD) disproportionately burdens racial and ethnic minority populations, yet the extent to which US clinical trials reflect this burden remains poorly understood. We conduct a systematic review of all 88 completed US-based Phase III AD drug trials between 1997 and 2023, using...

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Long-term trends in racial and ethnic reporting and representation in US Alzheimer's clinical trials

Lin, Zhuoer; Sun, Ruochen; Rossi, Joseph S.; Lau, Kien; … - 2026

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Does social identity matter in political markets? : the influence of managerial tribal identity in corporate political strategy formulation

Liedong, Tahiru Azaaviele - 2026

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Why is dementia diagnosed later for racial and ethnic minorities? : the role of individual and neighborhood factors

Qian, Yuting; Li, Fan; Chen, Xi - 2026

Racial and ethnic minorities with dementia are substantially less likely to receive timely diagnoses, yet the factors underlying these gaps remain poorly quantified. Using nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data linked to Medicare claims (1998-2021) and National...

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Why is dementia diagnosed later for racial and ethnic minorities? : the role of individual and neighborhood factors

Qian, Yuting; Li, Fan; Chen, Xi - 2026

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The demand for private schools and its impact on school segregation and student outcomes

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Holm, Anders - 2026

This study examines the impact of private school attendance on segregation and student achievement in compulsory school in Denmark. We show that increased private school attendance is driven by students from high socio-economic groups. Leveraging variation across municipalities, grade and...

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The demand for private schools and its impact on school segregation and student outcomes

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Holm, Anders - 2026

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The mortality risk of raising grandchildren in the United States

Xu, Hongwei; Logan, John R.; Gardner, Todd K. - 2026

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Neighborhood racial status and white out-mobility

Yen, Shih-Keng; Amaral, Ernesto F. L. - 2026

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The role of homophily in response to labor market opportunities : differences across race and ethnicity

Burns, Kalee E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2026

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What's in a name? : perceived ethnic discrimination in Tokyo's rental housing market

Alder, Jessica; Waltl, Sofie; Nishigai, Konatsu; Bao, … - 2026

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Minority bureaucrats' networks and career progression : evidence from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Hu, Yan; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

Do minorities benefit from social networks? In this paper, we study this question using the historical example of China's first modern bureaucratic organization, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Drawing on newly digitized personnel records from 1876-1911, we first show that the Chinese...

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Minority bureaucrats' networks and career progression : evidence from the Chinese maritime customs service

Hu, Yan; Maurer, Stephan - 2025

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Minority bureaucrats' networks and career progression : evidence from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Hu, Yan; Maurer, Stephan - 2025

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Violence and ethnic identity

Elizalde, Aldo; Hidalgo, Eduardo; Kampanelis, Sotiris - 2026

Can violence erase an ethnic identity? We study this question using the Shining Path insurgency in Peru (1980-1992), which sought to replace competing affiliations with a single class identity and killed roughly 70,000 people, three-quarters of them Indigenous. Combining individual-level data on...

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Merit, identity, and redistribution : experimental evidence on affirmative action

Deshpande, Ashwini; Gille, Veronique; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2026

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Stay, split or overthrow : theory and evidence on secessionist vs centrist conflict

Esteban Marquillas, Joan María; Flamand, Sabine; … - 2026

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Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? : evidence from a field experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2026

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From quotas to classrooms : the impact of minority representatives on development and education in India

Owens, Trudy; Upward, Richard; Vinod, Athira - 2026

We provide new evidence on the effect of minority elected state representatives on economic development and schooling in India. Using data on candidates in all state assembly elections from 1974 to 2017, we exploit two discontinuities in the reservation of constituencies for Scheduled Castes...

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Discrimination preferences

Gagnon, Nickolas; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2026

We investigate preferences for engaging in or opposing discrimination, focusing on moral preferences beyond self-interest. Some individuals may oppose statistical discrimination on grounds of protected-group equality, while others may prefer it to reward groups with higher average merit....

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Model minority under Bamboo Ceiling : on the association between leadership development opportunities and task performance and helping behavior of Asian employees

Ma, Chao; Yingnan, Shi - 2026

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The political economy of intergroup contact : evidence from Malaysia

Kok, Chun Chee; Lim, Gedeon; Shariat, Danial; Siddique, Abu - 2026

Are there particular social structures that allow ethnic diversity to coexist with political stability and economic development? This paper examines the long-run effects of interethnic proximity using quasi-random variation from a colonial-era program that forcibly relocated over 500,000 ethnic...

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Ethnicity, race and minorities

Dziadula, Eva; Harris, Jorgen - 2026

This paper examines the complex, interconnected social systems that drive global racial, ethnic, and minoritybased inequality. While these categories are often perceived through biological or purely numerical lenses, we demonstrate that they are fundamentally fluid social constructs born out of...

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Agency through informality : how Bangladeshi restaurant owners navigate structural constraints in times of crisis

Ram, Monder; McCarthy, Imelda; Jones, Trevor; Mafulul, … - 2026

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Discipline beyond suspensions : racial/ethnic disparities across the spectrum of disciplinary actions

Lee, Youngsun; Liu, Jing; Penner, Emily - 2026

Little research examines whether the alternatives to suspension reduce racial/ethnic discipline disparities. Using unusually rich administrative data from a large district in the South, we investigate how schools use a range of disciplinary actions and the racial/ethnic gaps in their use. School...

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Did the outbreak of COVID-19 and individual exposure to it increase in-group bias in the United States? : an experimental investigation of inter-ethnic trust

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2026

Pathogen-stress and terror-management theories predict that lethal epidemics heighten parochial cooperation. We test this prediction experimentally in two nationally representative U.S. samples surveyed before and at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare trust and expected...

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Education and minority language loss : an examination of Welsh and the 1870 education act

Milner, Benjamin - 2026 - This version: March 2026

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The social and statistical construction of race

Adukia, Anjali; Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel; … - 2026

We examine the social construction of race in the United States, from Reconstruction to the modern day, and show how this affects statistical differences across and within racial categories. During the Reconstruction era, people with the same light brown skin tones, recorded by the Freedman's...

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Can interethnic marriages mitigate discrimination? : insights from a field experiment

Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2026

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On the economic prospects of non-Western migrants in Europe

Prokic-Breuer, Tijana; Vermeulen, Stan; Webbink, Herman … - 2026

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The state of rental discrimination : a meta-analytical comparison of five discrimination grounds in the housing market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; De Vos, Louise; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2026

This meta-analysis compares patterns of rental discrimination across five grounds: ethnoracial origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and social origin. We analyze 475 field experimental estimates from 31 countries, published between 2002 and 2024. In the random-effects pooled...

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Steering and spatial mismatch

Wang, Yao; Wang, Yixuan; Zhu, Tianyun - 2026

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Communities of commerce : the legacy of Chinese immigration on Java

Do, Quoc-Anh; Ellingsen, Sebastian; Lim, Gedeon - 2026

This paper studies the long-run impacts of diasporas on local economic development. We do so in the context of one of the most economically influential diasporas: the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia. Our instrumental variables strategy exploits 15th-century landing sites on Java that shaped...

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Communities of commerce : the legacy of chinese immigration on java

Do, Quoc-Anh; Ellingsen, Sebastian; Lim, Gedeon - 2026

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Exploring the experiences of ethnic minority leadership in social housing : challenges, opportunities, and pathways to inclusion

Benton, Ellie; Lane, Laura; Rowan, Jessica Horne - 2026

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Using role models to inspire marginalized groups : a cautionary tale

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2026

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Using role models to inspire marginalized groups : a cautionary tale

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2024

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Integration, ethnic concentration and migrant self-employment in EU countries

Massidda, Carla; Piras, Romano; Tunis, Silvio - 2026

This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between migration, integration, and self-employment across European Union countries. Migration presents multifaceted challenges for host societies, particularly in terms of social cohesion and inclusive development. The...

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Household size, demographic composition, and per capita expenditure : evidence from Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam

Truong, Thi Thuy Trang; Vu, Thi Mai Huong; Ngo, Thi Hai Yen - 2026

Per capita household expenditure is widely used to assess realized welfare. However, its variation may reflect not only income differences but also household scale, demographic composition, health-related burdens, and social disadvantage. This study examines the conditional correlates of per...

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Discrimination in grading? : evidence on teachers' evaluation bias toward minority students

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2026

We analyze whether teachers discriminate against ethnic minority students with regard to grading. Using comprehensive data on students in German primary and secondary schools, we compare students' scores on standardized, anonymously graded achievement tests with non-anonymous teacher ratings...

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Migration motivation and ethnic identity of migrant couples : tied versus lead movers

Freitas Monteiro, Teresa - 2026

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Power to whom : authoritarian preferences and minority success

Dogan, Gönül; Strang, Louis Mick - 2026 - This version: July 28, 2026

We propose a novel behavioural measure of authoritarian preferences and deploy it in a large German sample comparing East and West. We identify preference for three types of decision rules and discrimination when assigning decision power. Support for authoritarian decision rules is high with 73%...

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Male dominance and cultural extinction

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2026

Why do some cultures go extinct while others prevail? In this paper, we show that a society's risk of cultural extinction, proxied by language loss, is shaped by its ancestral gender norms and by how these norms differ from those of competing cultures. Using the Ethnologue and the Male Dominance...

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Foreign influence and identity equilibria : a model of external intervention and social alignment

Hauk, Esther - 2025

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Does local diversity affect charitable giving?

Yörük, Barış K. - 2025

How does diversity affect charitable giving? On the one hand, diversity can lead to increased charitable giving, as individuals may feel more connected to and invested in their community when they see the diversity of needs and perspectives within it. On the other hand, diversity can also create...

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Does local diversity affect charitable giving?

Yörük, Barış K. - 2025

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