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Three essays on the economics of racial and ethnic differences.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on the economics of racial and ethnic differences./
Author:	Zhou, Chao.
Description:	108 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-12A.
Subject:	African American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3430412
ISBN:	9781124297255

Three essays on the economics of racial and ethnic differences.
Zhou, Chao.

Three essays on the economics of racial and ethnic differences. - 108 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2011.

The United States contains an enormous variety of racial and ethnic groups, many of which have faced discrimination, both historically and today. My dissertation studies how minority races and ethnic groups were (and are) treated differently and how these treatments affect economic outcomes from different angles, including income, education, employment and health.

ISBN: 9781124297255Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669123
African American Studies.

Three essays on the economics of racial and ethnic differences.
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520 $a Historically, blacks were denied access to many hospitals because of their race. Chapter One uses a historical natural experiment---federally-mandated hospital desegregation---to study the impact of access on racial differences in deaths from motor vehicle accidents. Focusing primarily on Mississippi, I use detailed micro-data from the US Vital Statistics matched with race-specific hospital survey information. Combining this data set with a race-specific distance to the nearest hospital before and after integration, I find that, on average, distance to nearest hospital fell by 50 miles for blacks after integration. I also show that distance and accident mortality were positively correlated: increases in distance to the nearest hospital were associated with higher mortality.
520 $a Chapter Two focuses on a contemporary issue---Racial and ethnic differences in medical utilization. I focus on the heart failure because it is the leading noncancerous diagnosis for patients in hospice care and the leading cause of hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries. In a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, I find that blacks and Hispanics used hospice care for heart failure less than whites after adjustment for individual and market factors.
520 $a Blending both historical and contemporary analysis, Chapter 3 studies a previously unnoticed trend---a secular decline from 1960 to 2000 in the relative likelihood that Asian-Americans worked in the public sector. In 1960 Asian Americans were nearly ten percentage points more likely to work in the public sector than were Whites, but by 2000 the gap had declined to two percentage points. I argue that this relative decline in public employment reflects relative improvement over time in labor market outcomes in the private sector for Asian Americans.
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