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"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper studies racial/ethnic disparities in awareness of chronic diseases using biomarker data from the 2006 HRS. We estimate a 3-step sequential probit model which accounts for selection into: (1) participating in biomarker collection; (2) having illness (hypertension or diabetes); (3) being aware of illness. Contrary to studies reporting that African-Americans are more aware of having hypertension than non-Latino whites, we do not find this conclusion holds after self-selection and severity are considered. Likewise, African-Americans and Latinos are less aware of having diabetes compared to non-Latino whites. Disparities in unawareness are exacerbated when we limit the sample to untreated respondents"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

A review of key empirical findings on race, ethnicity, & criminal or delinquent behavior in the US looks at racial/ethnic disparities in three data sources: official arrest/conviction records; self-reports of victimization; & self-reports of offending. Special attention is given to why there are huge ethnic differences in official records but smaller ethnic discrepancies in self-report studies. Consideration is given to the likelihood of certain groups being omitted from self-report studies; the emphasis on minor delinquency in questionnaires; & evidence of ethnic bias in self-report studies. Possible mediators of ethnic differences in crime are examined, including IQ & the socioeconomic context of one's neighborhood. New findings from the Chicago Neighborhoods Study indicate that crime rates (as self-reported) were highest among African Americans & lowest among Mexican Americans. The results of multivariate analyses showed neighborhood disadvantage to be the most important single mediator of the violent crime difference between African Americans & Whites while neither socioeconomic status nor family structure was influential. The implications are discussed. Tables, Figures, References. J. Lindroth

"The updated fifteenth edition of Racial and Ethnic Groups continues to take full advantage of the most recent data releases from the U.S. Census Bureau through the annual American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS allows each new edition of the text to include updated information (without the ACS, data would be updated only once a decade, based on the results of the ten-year census)"--