Does affirmative action reduce disparities in healthcare use by Indigenous peoples? Evidence from Australia's Indigenous Practice Incentives Program.
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.4645
Abstract: Globally, Indigenous populations experience poorer health but use less primary healthcare than their non-Indigenous counterparts. In 2010, the Australian government introduced a targeted reform aimed at reducing these disparities. The reform reduced, or abolished prescription… read more here.
Keywords: indigenous peoples; affirmative action; action reduce; reform ... See more keywords
State affirmative action bans and STEM degree completions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.01.003
Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of statewide affirmative action bans on minority STEM degree completions at US public four-year colleges. The number of minority students completing STEM degrees at highly selective colleges falls by 19%… read more here.
Keywords: minority; degree completions; action bans; stem degree ... See more keywords
Affirmative Action through Extra Prizes
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.06.016
Abstract: Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Contestants… read more here.
Keywords: affirmative action; extra prize; action extra; extra prizes ... See more keywords
Traditional hierarchies and affirmative action in a globalizing economy: Evidence from India
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.02.006
Abstract: Abstract We compare successive age cohorts of three broad social groups – Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC-STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and “Others” and provide the first disaggregated picture of the evolution of inter-caste disparities… read more here.
Keywords: hierarchies affirmative; action; traditional hierarchies; affirmative action ... See more keywords
Political and legal antecedents of affirmative action: a comparative framework
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DOI: 10.1017/s0143814x18000089
Abstract: Much of the literature on affirmative action is normative. Further, in scholarship that takes an empirical approach to examine this topic, the object of inquiry is typically the ramifications of such provisions – most notably… read more here.
Keywords: political legal; action comparative; antecedents affirmative; legal antecedents ... See more keywords
Supreme Court cases on affirmative action threaten diversity in medicine
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220919120
Abstract: Author affiliations: S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;… read more here.
Keywords: supreme court; affirmative action; endocrinology; cases affirmative ... See more keywords
Veiled Threats: Color-Blind Frames and Group Threat in Affirmative Action Discourse
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DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spy020
Abstract: This research examines the way color-blind rhetorical techniques are used by supporters and opponents in legal documents submitted to the latest U.S. Supreme court case on affirmative action. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva posited that color-blind ideology is… read more here.
Keywords: color; blind frames; ideology; color blind ... See more keywords
Affirmative action in healthcare resource allocation: Vaccines, ventilators and race
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DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13067
Abstract: Abstract This article is about the potential justification for deploying some form of affirmative action (AA) in the context of healthcare, and in particular in relation to the pandemic. We call this Affirmative Action in… read more here.
Keywords: affirmative action; resource allocation; healthcare resource; action healthcare ... See more keywords
Racial and income‐based affirmative action in higher education admissions: Lessons from the Brazilian experience
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DOI: 10.1111/joes.12564
Abstract: This survey article provides insights regarding the future of affirmative action by analyzing the implementation methods and the empirical evidence on the use of placement quotas in the Brazilian higher education system. All federal universities… read more here.
Keywords: income based; higher education; affirmative action; action ... See more keywords
Science needs affirmative action.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.abo3934
Abstract: As science struggles to correct systemic racism in the laboratory and throughout academia in the United States, external forces press on, making it even more difficult to achieve equity on all fronts-including among scientists. The… read more here.
Keywords: science; science needs; affirmative action; needs affirmative ... See more keywords
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
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DOI: 10.1177/00016993231163416
Abstract: Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey… read more here.
Keywords: affirmative action; favouring women; action policies; support ... See more keywords