Applied Geography, Institutions, and Racial-Ethnic Experiences

The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps

We estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009-2013. We show that achievement gaps vary substantially, ranging from nearly 0 in some places to larger than 1.2 standard deviations...

Racial/ethnic disparities in Medicare Part D experiences.

OBJECTIVE To examine racial/ethnic differences in Medicare beneficiary experiences with Medicare Part D prescription drug (PD) coverage. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING 2008 Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems survey of U.S. Medicare beneficiaries. STUDY DESIGN Surveys were administered by mail with phone follow-up to a nationally representative sample (61% response rate). T...

Racial and Ethnic Descriptors

In response to the lack of easily retrievable clinical data to address health services and medical effectiveness questions, especially as they relate to racial/ethnic minorities, the Center for Information Technology (CIT), Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) recently sponsored a project on record linkage methodology applied to automated medical administrative datasets containing...

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Ethnic and Racial Studies

This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds ligh...