of Virginia. It reviews the history and objectives of the preference for legacy applicants in undergraduate admissions, then employs demographic techniques to predict the racial composition of the pool of potential legacy applicants to theUniversity of Virginia. The demographic forecasts predict that the once

I use data surrounding public school redistricting to study how school racial compositions affect neighborhood racial compositions. This redistricting followed from the end of court-ordered busing for racial desegregation, significantly changing the racial composition of the assigned school

This paper examines the effect of the racial composition of labor markets on wage rates and the racial wage gap. The wage rates of white as well as black workers are significantly lower in industry-occupation-regional groups with high densities of black workers, while the racial wage gap does

We examine the effect of the school racial composition of teachers and the school racial composi-tion of students on the job satisfaction, school commitment, and career commitment of teachers in 405 schools in a large urban school system. We rely on arguments from relational demography theory

The present study examined how intergroup attitudes and behavior among Hispanic middle school students varied as a function of school racial/ethnic composition. Data were derived from a survey of all students present in the sixth to eighth grades of three public middle schools (N = 1

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Referral to a nephrologist before initiation of chronic dialysis occurs less frequently for blacks than whites, but the reasons for this disparity are incompletely understood. Here, we examined the contri-bution of racial composition by zip code on access and quality of nephrology care before

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Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bureau of Sociological Research- Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of

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