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The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders

Frame, W. Scott; Huang, Ruidi; Mayer, Erik J.; Sunderam, Adi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority borrowers are less likely to...

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Wealth of Two Nations : The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most persistent. In this paper, we construct the first continuous series on white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios...

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NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research

Fu, Wei; Chou, Shin-yi; Wang, Li-San - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the approaching era of genomic medicine, the underrepresentation of minority populations in human genetics and genomics research has raised growing concerns regarding the distributive justice in the translation of biomedical innovations into human health across populations. Quantitative...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that … model the choice as an extensive-form game, where whites choose to accept or reject a separate mulatto identity and mixed …

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Do Black Politicians Matter?

Logan, Trevon D. - 2018

This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral preferences and black representation using the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an...

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The Long Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation

Anstreicher, Garrett; Fletcher, Jason; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through the 1980s, and were arguably the most substantive national attempt to improve educational access for African American children in modern American history. Using large Census...

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The Labor of Division : Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework

Goodman, Joshua - 2017

Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase black students' completed math coursework and their...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation

Antman, Francisca M.; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in...

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Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-Up

Kuka, Elira; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies differences in receipt and take-up of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits among white and Black individuals. We combine state-level UI regulations with data containing detailed information on individuals' work history and UI receipt. Black individuals who separate from a job...

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