. These effects were driven by both Black and white voters, and were stronger in counties with a lower history of …

rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon and the reasons why blacks may be particularly vulnerable to the disease … that race does affect COVID-19 outcomes. The data confirm that in Cook County blacks are overrepresented in terms of COVID …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we …

manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks (men, women, and children) in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates … lesser degree - leading to larger gaps between whites and blacks in wages, marriage patterns, poverty, single-parenthood, and …

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened … revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating various measures of well …-being, we find that the well-being of blacks has increased both absolutely and relative to that of whites. While a racial gap in …