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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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ISSN 2377-8253 · Russell Sage Foundation · 517 artikel di indeks
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The “Bamboo Ceiling” in Law: Asian American Perceptions of Inequality in the Legal Profession
Although Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial minority groups in law schools and the American legal profession, they are underrepresented in leadership positions compared with their overall numbers within the profession. What explains this disparity? The existing literature on the “bamboo…
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Betting on Business: How Family Wealth and Ethnic Capital Shape Choices and Constraints for Chinese Americans’ Entrepreneurial Pathways
Entrepreneurship is a mobility mechanism for the immigrant generation, but second-generation Asian Americans are often assumed to shun business ownership in favor of entering the professional labor market. However, there is reason to believe that entrepreneurship is a common and important mobility…
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The Shift to Stock-Based Compensation and the Asian American–White Pay Gap Revisited
Financialization of the US economy has brought about major historical change in compensation practices. In addition to traditional cash wages, American employers increasingly provide workers with compensation based in part on company stock, and 23 percent of US private-sector employees now receive…
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Nonmarital Childbearing and Family Structure Among Asian Americans: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, and Immigration
This study examines how maternal education shapes nonmarital childbearing and family structure among Asian Americans compared with non-Hispanic Whites. We also assess within-group variation by Asian ethnicity, generational status, and interracial marriage. Drawing on 2015–2019 natality data from…
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The Role of Extended Family in Asian American Women’s Employment from 1990 to 2022
Prior research suggests that extended family living arrangements may contribute to Asian women’s labor-market advantage over White women. However, our understanding of the role that extended family plays in Asian women’s employment across ethnicity, immigrant generation, and time periods remain…
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Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap Among Computer Science Professionals: What Differentiates the Earnings of Asian and White Workers?
Increasing women’s representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often seen as a way to reduce the gender wage gap. Asians are overrepresented in STEM, and previous studies found a smaller gender wage gap among Asians compared with Whites, but this research…
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How Asian Americans Fare in the Labor Market: The Intersection of Education, Gender, and Ethnicity
Studies of Asian Americans in the labor market point to significant variations in experiences by educational attainment, gender, and ethnicity, but few studies attend to the intersections of these characteristics in yielding disparate patterns of earnings. Using data from the American Community…
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Geography, Coethnic Concentration, and Earnings Disadvantage of Asian American Men
Asian Americans are considered a model minority due to their high socioeconomic attainments. On average, they earn more than native-born Whites, but their tendency to live in relatively high-cost areas raises the question of how geographic distribution relates to Asian American earnings advantages…
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Nationally Ahead, Locally Behind: Geographic Scale and the Asian American Income (Dis)advantage
Most estimates of Asian–White inequality are calculated at the national level. We show that measures of Asian–White inequality are sensitive to the geographic scale at which they are calculated. Nationally, Asian Americans earn 107 percent of the median income of non-Hispanic White people…
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The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace
In June 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in university admissions—a decision largely due to allegations that elite universities had engaged in racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. Central to both sides of the affirmative action debate was the…
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The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards
As climate change intensifies, understanding the effects of climate hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, coastal and riverine flooding, tornadoes, heat waves, and extreme snowstorms is key to understanding patterns of inequality. In this introduction, we review a multidisciplinary literature on…
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“Do Battle with Insurance”: Post-Hurricane Insurance Litigation in Southwest Louisiana
Property insurance is essential for hurricane recovery, yet timely and fair claims payouts are not guaranteed. Post-disaster litigation over denied or delayed claims is common but understudied in who sues and how this varies sociodemographically. Southwest Louisiana is well situated for such an…
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The Impacts of Repeated Disasters on School Attendance and Learning
As more children are exposed to climate disasters, the effects of repeated hazards on education are increasingly important but also unclear: some theories predict compounding negative effects from each consecutive hazard, whereas others suggest attenuating disadvantages. Combining North Carolina’s…
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Impacts of Climate Hazards on Employment and Earnings by Hazard Type, Industry, Race, and Ethnicity
We examine the relationship between climate-related disasters and subsequent county-level aggregate employment and earnings. We combine earnings and employment data from 2000 to 2023 with data on disasters to estimate local projection impulse response functions relating extreme disaster events to…
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Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration
In Mexico, the context of indigeneity—the share of the local population with precolonial origins—patterns multiple forms of inequality, including disproportionate exposure to weather extremes. We examine whether it also shapes undocumented migration to and return from the United States following…
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Tale of Two Storms: Neighborhood Racial Change After Hurricanes Sandy and Harvey
We use the case of Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Harvey to test how extreme climate events drive neighborhood racial change and how impacts vary in settings with different socioeconomic characteristics and exposures to past flooding risk. Using data on neighborhood characteristics, mortgage…
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The Trajectory of Rental Housing in the Wake of Natural Disasters: Evidence from California and Florida
Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity while rental affordability has been declining in many cities. This article presents a new dataset at this intersection, merging rental outcomes with disaster incidence and government assistance. We construct two new panel models that estimate the…
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The Revolving Door of Risk: Climate Hazards, Risk Containment, and the Hidden Social Dynamics of Managed Retreat
Nationwide, flood risks are encouraging local authorities to implement a federal policy known as managed retreat. The program offers homeowners a fair market price to voluntarily relinquish their properties for demolition and move elsewhere, thereby subsidizing residential relocation as a means of…
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Social Class Targeting of Property Buyouts
As local governments face the burden of responding to climate-related hazards, their actions layer on top of existing class inequalities. This article reports on a survey experiment examining the responses of elected city and county officials to a proposed voluntary buyout of properties at risk…
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Navigating the Storm: Natural Disasters and the Policy Process
Partisan divides in the legislature threaten efforts to combat climate change in the United States. Natural disasters, such as droughts, hurricanes, floods, and forest fires, may open a “window of opportunity” for elected representatives to take action on environmental legislation (Kingdon 1995)…