This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions.
Dr. Whitfield's research on individual differences in minority aging employs a two prong approach that includes studying individual people as well as members of twin pairs.
For example, there could be differing proportions of small-for-gestational-age and low-birth-weight preterm births among the three study regions (e.g., reflecting differences in ethnic minority mix), with a stronger association of THM exposure with one of these pathways to becoming a low-birth-weight baby, but not the other.
Also, there may be differences in attitudes toward minorities across states that are correlated with the minorities' wage disadvantages.
It has been suggested that lower quality care and disparities in treatment are major contributors to differences in survival between minority and non-minority populations [ 39].
Some analysts attribute the disparities to "differential involvement"—that is, to differences in offending by minorities and whites.
RESULTS:We observed racial/ethnic differences in PWB, with minorities reporting lower scores than whites (beta, black: - 1.79; beta, Hispanic: - 1.92; beta, Asian: - 1.68; p < 0.0001 for all comparisons).
The stark differences in risk for minorities are particularly disturbing - African-American women are almost four times as likely as white or Hispanic women to die in childbirth".
The health status variable with the largest difference in ethnic minority groups was health control beliefs, with non-western ethnic minorities being four times more likely to have low health control beliefs than those of Dutch ethnicity.
This sample is well-powered to detect ethnic differences in the largest minority groups, but over 200 ethnic categories were self-reported for minor groups suggesting that the large "Other" ethnic group category is highly heterogeneous and conclusions ought to be interpreted cautiously.
