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Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman, and Longitude by Hamermesh, Daniel S., Myers, Caitlin Knowles, Pocock, Mark L.

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Carpenter, Jeffrey, Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Carpenter, Jeffrey, Connolly, Cristina, Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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? by MYERS, CAITLIN KNOWLES, CLOSE, GRACE, FOX, LAURICE, MEYER, JOHN WILLIAM, NIEMI, MADELINE

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles, Bellows, Marcus, Fakhoury, Hiba, Hale, Douglas, Hall, Alexander, Ofman, Kaitlin

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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 by Myers, Caitlin Knowles

“…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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