Role models and arguments for affirmative action
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Affirmative action advocates often invoke the role-model argument when arguing for the maintenance of minority quotas. This argument can be improved by clearly defining what a role model is and relating its informational impact upon, and benefits for, the targeted minority group.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 2000
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Capital mobility in neoclassical models of growth: comment
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Empirical observations and the behaviors of credit-constrained economies are examined, and it is concluded that restrictive borrowing is unjustified except for a very limited class of economies.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 2000
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