Browsing by Subject "inequality"

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    Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
    (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-03-03) Garlick, RJ
    I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This lowers mean GPA and raises GPA dispersion. I also directly estimate peer effects using random variation in peer groups across dormitories. Living with higher-scoring peers raises students' GPAs and this effect is larger for low-scoring students. Peer effects operate largely within race groups but operate both within and across programs of study. This suggests that spatial proximity alone does not generate peer effects. Interaction of some sort is required, but direct academic collaboration is not the relevant form of interaction. I integrate the results from variation in group assignment policies and variation in group composition by drawing on the matching and sorting literatures. Both sets of results imply that own and peer academic performance are substitutes in GPA production and that GPA may be a concave function of peer group performance. The cross-dormitory results correctly predict a negative effect of tracking on low-scoring students but understate the magnitude of the observed effect. I show that this understatement reflects both policy-sensitive parameter estimates and problems with extrapolation outside the support of the data observed under random assignment. This underlines the value of using both cross-policy and cross-group variation to study peer effects.
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    Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
    (Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019-03) Fischer, C; Pizer, WA
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    Inequality and Support for Government Responses to Covid-19
    (IZA Discussion Paper) Dang, Hai-Anh H; Malesky, Edmund; Nguyen, Cuong Viet
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    The Altruistic Rich? Inequality and Other-Regarding Preferences for Redistribution
    (QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2016) Dimick, Matthew; Rueda, David; Stegmueller, Daniel
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    Visualizing COVID Restrictions: Activity Patterns Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdowns in Uttar Pradesh, India.
    (Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world, 2022-01) Varela, Gabriel; Swanson, Kendal; Pasquale, Dana K; Mohanan, Manoj; Moody, James W
    Globally, restrictions implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19 have highlighted deeply rooted social divisions, raising concerns about differential impacts on members of different groups. Inequalities among households of different castes are ubiquitous in certain regions of India. Drawing on a novel data set of 8,564 households in Uttar Pradesh, the authors use radar plots to examine differences between castes in rates of activity for several typical behaviors before, during, and upon lifting strict lockdown restrictions. The visualization reveals that members of all castes experienced comparable reductions in activity rates during lockdown and recovery rates following it. Nonetheless, members of less privileged castes procure water outside the household more often than their more privileged peers, highlighting an avenue of improvement for future public health efforts.