Under current law, the U.S. requires businesses and organizations to turn over unclaimed property to the relevant state government, which is responsible for locating the owners (or their heirs) and returning the property to the rightful individuals. This often requires a nominal fee when filing a claim and providing verification of owner identity. In fiscal year 2015, the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators reports that state governments received $7.763 billion in unclaimed property, of which only $3.235 billion was returned to the rightful owners.
Carruthers and Wanamaker seek to better understand changes in the black-white wage gap, hypothesizing that the period between 1940 and 1980 is especially important because these were the years in which first, school desegregation led to a reduction in the quality gap between black and white schools, and second, the labor market moved from one without explicit protections for racial minorities to one with codified protections in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What are the effects of student debt on labor market outcomes? Outstanding student debt increased from $260 billion in 2004 to $1.46 trillion in 2019 (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2019) and generated a debate among policymakers, advocacy groups, and academics over the effects and consequences of student debt.
Economist Elliott Ash and colleagues will examine how and the extent to which attitudes toward gender affect decision-making in the judicial system. They will address the measurement challenge by exploiting the large corpus of written text for appellate judges, arguing that text can provide important insights into human social psychology. The PIs will proxy judges’ attitudes toward gender by measuring the degree of language slant that is displayed by their writing.
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The Settlement Horizon
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An exploration of settlements throughout the United States, in particular non-residential neighborhood centers, covering a range of interests, including history, educational approaches, and connections to labor.
ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee
ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee
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San Francisco Relief Survey
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607 pages
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The organization and methods of relief used after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, compiled from studies by Charles J. O’Connor, Francis H. McLean, Helen Swett Artieda, James Marvin Motley, Jessica Peixotto, and Mary Roberts Coolidge, offering a book of ready reference for use on occasions of special emergency.
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A survey of public schools conducted by the Department of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation under the direction of Leonard P. Ayres. Part of the Springfield Survey.