New Evidence of Skin Color Bias and Health Outcomes Using Sibling Difference Models: A Research Note

Using materials from the Russian Foreign Ministry archive in Moscow (combined with previously obtained Brazilian and U.S. sources), this research note presents fresh evidence about Soviet-Brazilian relations and the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, supplementing a detailed, two-part article published in the Journal of Cold War Studies in 2004 exploring Brazil's secret mediation between John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro at the height of the crisis. The new evidence illuminates a previously hidden “double game” that Brazil's president, João Goulart, played during the crisis as he alternated between meetings with the U.S. ambassador and Nikita Khrushchev's recently arrived envoy (Brazil and the Soviet Union had just restored diplomatic relations after a fifteen-year break). The new evidence from Moscow suggests that Goulart, who vowed solidarity with Washington and even toasted Kennedy's “victory” when talking to the U.S. ambassador, took a completely different approach when speaking to Soviet officials, expressing strong sympathy and even support for Khrushchev.

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The Unfair Selection: A Study on Skin-Color Bias in Arranged Indian Marriages

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244018773149 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 215824401877314

Author(s):

Itisha Nagar

Keyword(s):

Skin Color ◽

Color Bias

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“But the Story Was True”: A Research Note on Canadian Intelligence Activities in Vietnam

Canadian Historical Review ◽

10.3138/chr-2021-0007 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Andrews Sayle

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Future Study ◽

Research Note ◽

Diplomatic History ◽

International Commission ◽

International History ◽

New Information ◽

The Cold War ◽

And Control ◽

New Evidence

Recently declassified records reveal new information and confirm old assumptions about Canadian intelligence activities in Vietnam during the 1950s and 1960s. These records are now available online at Canada Declassified. This research note describes the new evidence and considers its implications for existing historiography regarding Canada and the International Commission for Supervision and Control and Canadian policy towards the American war in Vietnam. It suggests new opportunities for research on Canadian intelligence activities during the Cold War. More broadly, the note responds to the discussion in the Canadian Historical Review’s December 2015 issue (volume 96, number 4) regarding the future study of Canada’s diplomatic history and international action by suggesting that Canadian intelligence activities should be considered by scholars crafting narratives of Canadian international history.

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Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth

American Economic Journal Economic Policy ◽

10.1257/pol.20140160 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 115-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Erin M. Johnson ◽

M. Marit Rehavi

Keyword(s):

Health Outcomes ◽

Patient Information ◽

Financial Incentives ◽

Treatment Gap ◽

Induced Demand ◽

New Evidence ◽

To Receive

This paper provides new evidence on the interaction between patient information and physician financial incentives. Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with that of comparable nonphysicians. We also exploit the presence of HMO-owned hospitals to determine how the treatment gap varies with providers’ financial incentives. Consistent with induced demand, physicians are approximately 10 percent less likely to receive a C-section, with only a quarter of this effect attributable to differential sorting. While financial incentives affect the treatment of nonphysicians, physician-patients are largely unaffected. Physicians also have better health outcomes. (JEL D83, I11, J16, J44)

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Do Community Supported Agriculture programmes encourage change to food lifestyle behaviours and health outcomes? New evidence from shareholders

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability ◽

10.1080/14735903.2016.1177866 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 70-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

James E. Allen ◽

Jairus Rossi ◽

Timothy A. Woods ◽

Alison F. Davis

Keyword(s):

Health Outcomes ◽

Community Supported Agriculture ◽

Lifestyle Behaviours ◽

New Evidence

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Colorism and Physical Health: Evidence from a National Survey

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.1177/0022146520979645 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002214652097964

Author(s):

Ellis P. Monk

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Data Collection ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Physical Health ◽

Skin Color ◽

Color Discrimination ◽

Physical Health Outcomes ◽

Growing Body ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Everyday Discrimination

This study uses nationally representative data to extend a steadily growing body of research on the health consequences of skin color by comparatively examining the consequences of perceived ingroup and outgroup skin color discrimination (perceived colorism) for physical health among African Americans. Using a comprehensive set of measures of physical health, I find that perceived ingroup colorism is significantly associated with worse physical health outcomes among African Americans. Notably, the magnitude of ingroup colorism’s associations with most of these outcomes rivals or even exceeds that of major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination, and perceived outgroup colorism. These findings compellingly suggest the inclusion of perceived colorism measures in future survey data collection efforts.

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