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The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
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the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation within occupation, industry, establishments, and occupation …-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …
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(particularly African Americans) are also associated with higher levels of residential segregation and larger gaps in …
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Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...
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slower to eliminate typhoid fever. We develop a theoretical model that illustrates how segregation, by facilitating the …
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This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in … this effect increased during the late 1970's. In contrast, residential segregation is relatively less important …. In both cities,residential segregation strongly influences black employment patterns and limits the efficacy of efforts …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that the extraordinarily highrates of unemployment among black youth can be linked to a geographic mismatch between the residences of black youth and the jobs they might occupy. Chicago's labor market is examined in detail. The paper reports that black youth do...
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We analyze how changes in the allocation of students to colleges would affect segregation by parental income across …, admission, and matriculation rates across parental income groups conditional on test scores would reduce segregation … substantially reduce segregation and increase intergenerational mobility, even without changing colleges' educational programs …
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in wealth. This paper studies how residential segregation by race eroded black wealth in prewar urban areas. Using a …
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increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we first document a positive correlation between … inequality and segregation at the MSA level between 1980 and 2010. We then develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations … model, segregation and inequality amplify each other because of a local spillover that affects the returns to education. We …
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