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What We Teach About Race and Gender : Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Books shape how children learn about society and social norms, in part through the representation of different characters. To better understand the messages children encounter in books, we introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data. We apply...

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Hatred and Profits : Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2007

The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...

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Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Fryer, Roland G. - 2006

On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that includes a test of mental function for...

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Just and Reasonable Treatment : Racial Treatment in the Terms of Pauper Apprenticeship in Antebellum Maryland

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

This paper investigates the economics of pauper apprenticeship in antebellum Maryland and several results emerge. Contrary to some earlier interpretations, the system did not arbitrarily indent poor children. Court officials negotiated contracts that reflected an apprentice's productivity;...

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Is It Who You Are or Where You Live? Residential Segregation and Racial Gaps in Childhood Asthma

Alexander, Diane - 2017

Higher asthma rates are one of the more obvious ways that health inequalities between African American and other children are manifested beginning in early childhood. In 2010, black asthma rates were double non-black rates. Some but not all of this difference can be explained by factors such as...

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The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births

Gordon, Nora - 2016

We find a strong positive correlation between black exposure to whites in their school district and the prevalence of later mixed-race (black-white) births, consistent with the literature on residential segregation and endogamy. However, that relationship is significantly attenuated by the...

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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U … income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones. To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we … outcomes, and incomes among differently-classified brothers. Men perceived as African Americans of any skin tone faced similar …

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Racial Discrimination in Child Protection

Baron, E. Jason; Doyle, Joseph J.; Emanuel, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Ten percent of Black children in the U.S. spend time in foster care--twice the rate of white children. We estimate unwarranted disparities in foster care placement decisions, adjusting for differences in the potential for future maltreatment by leveraging the quasi-random assignment of cases to...

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Heterogeneous and Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the U.S

Boen, Courtney; Bair, Elizabeth; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of two signature state incarceration policies adopted during...

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