Search Results - "MYERS, CAITLIN KNOWLES"
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Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman, and Longitude
Published in Journal of labor economics (01-04-2008)“…Daylight, television schedules, and time zones can alter timing and induce temporal coordination of economic activities. With the American Time Use Survey for…”
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The Power of Abortion Policy: Reexamining the Effects of Young Women’s Access to Reproductive Control
Published in The Journal of political economy (01-12-2017)“…I provide new evidence on the relative “powers” of contraception and abortion policy in effecting the dramatic social transformations of the 1960s and 1970s…”
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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–2020
Published in Journal of population economics (01-10-2022)“…An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women’s confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion…”
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, image, and incentives
Published in Journal of public economics (01-12-2010)“…We examine motivations for prosocial behavior using new data on volunteer firefighters that contain a dictator game based measure of altruism, surveyed…”
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Altruistic behavior in a representative dictator experiment
Published in Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association (01-09-2008)“…We conduct a representative dictator game in which students and random members of the community choose both what charity to support and how much to donate to…”
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RETAIL REDLINING: ARE GASOLINE PRICES HIGHER IN POOR AND MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODS?
Published in Economic inquiry (01-07-2011)“…This study uses new data on retail gasoline prices in three cities to provide evidence on the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and consumer…”
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Discrimination and neighborhood effects: understanding racial differentials in US housing prices
Published in Journal of urban economics (01-09-2004)“…Because race and neighborhood characteristics are strongly correlated, studies of racial housing price differentials have yielded results that vary widely…”
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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California's Proposition 209
Published in Industrial & labor relations review (01-04-2007)“…An important claim made for affirmative action programs has been that they need not be permanent: they can be discontinued, the argument runs, once they have…”
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Ladies first? A field study of discrimination in coffee shops
Published in Applied economics (01-05-2010)“…Despite anecdotal and survey evidence suggesting the presence of discrimination against customers in stores, restaurants and other small-transaction consumer…”
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Inequality in housing and labor markets: Three essays
Published 01-01-2005“…This dissertation is made up of three essays that examine racial and gender differentials in labor and housing markets. The first essay uses unique data on…”
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Inequality in housing and labor markets: Three essays
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