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作者:Rodriguez, Luis A.
作者单位:New York University
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作者:Schroedel, Jean Reith
作者单位:Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Cain, Nicholas L.
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Cancian, Maria
作者单位:Georgetown University
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Coile, Courtney; Duggan, Mark; Guo, Audrey
作者单位:Wellesley College; Stanford University; Santa Clara University
摘要:The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in four U.S. military veterans and has annual expenditures of $77 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of Vietnam-era veterans, making use of variation in eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for veterans who served with boots on the ground in the Vietnam theater but not for other ...
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作者:Weidmann, Ben; Miratrix, Luke
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:This study examines whether unobserved factors substantially bias education evaluations that rely on the Conditional Independence Assumption. We add 14 new within-study comparisons to the literature, all from primary schools in England. Across these 14 studies, we generate 42 estimates of selection bias using a simple approach to observational analysis. A meta-analysis of these estimates suggests that the distribution of underlying bias is centered around zero. The mean absolute value of estim...
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作者:Lahey, Joanna N.; Oxley, Douglas R.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:This paper uses a laboratory experiment with eye-tracking and about 6,000 unique randomized resumes to explore the effects of race on employment discrimination over the life cycle for experienced applicants in their mid 30s to 70s. We find striking evidence of race discrimination against prime-age Black job applicants that diminishes into middle age before re-emerging for older applicants. Screeners in professional programs mechanically process Black and White resumes similarly, but spend less...