Love Is Not all you Need: Income Requirement for Visa Sponsorship of Foreign Family MembersJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 2 - Trang 62-76 - 2018
Madeleine Sumption, Carlos Vargas-Silva
In this paper, we explain conceptually how income requirements for citizens of a country to sponsor visas of foreign family members discriminate against certain groups of the population. Then, we analyse the case of an annual income requirement of £18,600 adopted by the UK Government in 2012 to sponsor visas of non-EEA partners and children in order to show the degree to which the policy discrimin...... hiện toàn bộ
In Hoc Signo Vinces—an Exploratory Study on the Impact of Religion on Violence in SportJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 200-214 - 2023
Vincenzo Alfano, Massimo Guarino, Francesca Rotondo
Does religion continue to spur
violence even in contemporary times? This work aims to shed some light on the relationship between belonging to a given religion and violent behavior. Whereas religions often preach love and caring for others (meaning that among believers, a decrease in the level of violence may be registered), at the same time, it could be argued that a religious sense of belonging...... hiện toàn bộ
The Dark Figure of Crime in Latin America and the CaribbeanJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 3 - Trang 76-95 - 2019
Laura Jaitman, Victoria Anauati
The dark figure of crime is the gap between crimes reported in victimization surveys and crimes registered in administrative police records. This paper quantifies the dark figure of gender-based violent crimes through a systematic comparison between official crime figures and victimization surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean over 2004–2014. We find that the dark figure of gender-based viole...... hiện toàn bộ
Examining the Association Between Veteran Status and Socioeconomic Status Among American Indian and Alaska Native Men in the USAJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 5 - Trang 167-180 - 2022
Kimberly R. Huyser, Sofia Locklear
In the USA, military service has been proposed as a social mobility opportunity for individuals from socially marginalized backgrounds, specifically that military training and access to benefits aid their civilian socioeconomic status. We examined the association between demographic characteristics and the education level and income level of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) and non-Hispani...... hiện toàn bộ
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large CitiesJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 3 - Trang 243-261 - 2020
Joseph Benitez, Charles Courtemanche, Aaron Yelowitz
As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the USA, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six diverse cities—Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, San Diego, and St. Louis—at the ZIP code level (covering 436 ...... hiện toàn bộ
Can Black Entrepreneurship Reduce Black-White Inequality in the United States?Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy - Tập 4 - Trang 294-301 - 2020
Susanne L. Toney, Gregory N. Price
This paper considers whether Black entrepreneurship in the USA matters for Black-White inequality in well-being as measured by individual happiness. We utilize data from the 2018 General Social Survey on respondent self-reported levels of happiness to estimate fixed group effect logit specifications of self-reported happiness levels as a function of individual characteristics, including being a Bl...... hiện toàn bộ