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Radford, Alexandria Walton; Cominole, Melissa; Skomsvold, Paul – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
These Web Tables use nationally representative data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) to provide descriptive statistics regarding nontraditional characteristics in the U.S. undergraduate population. Using the most recent data available, the statistics presented in the tables update and augment previous NCES reports that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nontraditional Students, Enrollment Trends, Demography
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Goldsmith, Arthur H.; Hamilton, Darrick; Darity, William, Jr. – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
This paper develops and tests a theory, referred to as "preference for whiteness," which predicts that the interracial (white-black) and intraracial wage gap widens as the skin shade of the black worker darkens. Using data drawn from the Multi City Study of Urban Inequality and the National Survey of Black Americans, we report evidence…
Descriptors: Wages, African Americans, Comparable Worth, Racial Bias
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Bien, Barbara; Wojszel, Beata; Sikorska-Simmons, Elzbieta – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2007
This study examines rural-urban differences in informal caregivers' perceptions of caregiving. The study's theoretical framework is based on the two-factor model of caregiving, which views caregiving as having both positive and negative impact. Data were collected in personal interviews with 126 rural and 127 urban caregivers in the Bialystok…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Rural Urban Differences, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas