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Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution
Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the contribution of slave wealth to Britain's growth prior to 1835. We compare areas of Britain with high and low exposure to the colonial plantation economy, using granular data on...
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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...
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Racial Protests and Credit Access
Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?
Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435094
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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435105
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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design
Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388843
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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...
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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality
Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...
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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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