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DESCRIPTION:Location: Leacock Building\, Room 429\n\nThe Social Statistics 
 and Population Statistics Seminar presents:\n\nAnjali Adukia\, Harris Scho
 ol of Public Policy & Director of the MiiE Lab (Messages\, Identity\, and 
 Inclusion in Education)\, University of Chicago\n\n'What We Teach About Ra
 ce and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books'\n\nA
 bstract:\n	Books shape how children learn about society and norms\, in part
  through representation of different characters. We introduce new artifici
 al intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and
  apply them\, along with text analysis methods\, to measure the representa
 tion of race\, gender\, and age in award-winning children’s books from the
  past century. We find that more characters with darker skin color appear 
 over time\, but the most influential books persistently depict a greater p
 roportion of light-skinned characters than other books\, even after condit
 ioning on race\; we also find that children are depicted with lighter skin
  than adults. Relative to their growing share of the U.S. population\, Bla
 ck and Latinx people are underrepresented in these same books\, while Whit
 e males are overrepresented. Over time\, females are increasingly present 
 but appear less often in text than in images\, suggesting greater symbolic
  inclusion in pictures than substantive inclusion in stories. We then repo
 rt empirical evidence for predictions about the supply of and demand for r
 epresentation that would generate these patterns. On the demand side\, we 
 show that people consume books that center their own identities. On the su
 pply side\, we document higher prices for books that center non-dominant s
 ocial identities and fewer copies of these books in libraries that serve p
 redominantly White communities. Lastly\, we show that the types of childre
 n’s books purchased in a neighborhood are related to local political belie
 fs.\n\nLink to paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29
 123/w29123.pdf\n\nAuthors: A. Adukia\, A. Eble\, E. Harrison\, H.B. Runesh
 a\, T. Szasz\n
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SUMMARY:Social Statistics and Population Dynamics Seminar
URL:/popcentre/channels/event/social-statistics-and-po
 pulation-dynamics-seminar-341925
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