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We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a comprehensive tax on all types of property (real, personal, and financial), making it one of the first "wealth...
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is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using proxies, then use those imputations to estimate the disparity … estimates of common health conditions by race using data from the American Family Cohort …
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In recent years, important and headline-grabbing findings have emerged from research using individual income tax data for statistical purposes. Demand for these microdata, accessible under the tax administration authority of the Internal Revenue Code and through the IRS Statistics of Income...
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Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...
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, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. Gaps between race …
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We examine the social construction of race during the United States' Reconstruction Era, a critical juncture between … the construction - or rather, reconstruction - of race in a period of unfulfilled potential for social transformation …, setting a path for racial segregation and continued racial stratification. The endogenous historical construction of race also …
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When obtaining information on individuals' race and ethnicity, the Current Population Survey (CPS) currently follows … the 1997 OMB standards, which prescribes race and Hispanic ethnicity as distinct concepts that should be asked about in … separate questions. In 2024, OMB updated the standards to stipulate that race and ethnicity be asked in one question and that a …
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ethnic groups. Understanding these disparities requires accurate measures of race and ethnicity of people involved in the … justice system. We document how race and ethnicity are recorded by administrative agents and how operational concerns limit … corrections to misreported race and ethnicity. To understand the impacts of these administrative processes, this paper uses novel …
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and ethnicity data from the 2010 Census to study how long-term earnings … differentials vary by place of birth for different self-identified race and ethnicity categories. We focus on foreign-born persons … differences for the 2nd generation also vary as a function of self-identified ethnicity and race in ways that changing to the …
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