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Hell with the Lid Off : Racial Segregation and Environmental Equity in America's Most Polluted City

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2024

This study examines the relationship between racial segregation and environmental equity in Pittsburgh from 1910 to 1940. Utilizing newly digitized historical data on the spatial distribution of air pollution in what was likely America's most polluted city, we analyze how racial disparities in...

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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990

Collins, William J. - 2000

The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...

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Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black

Cook, Lisa D.; Gerson, Janet; Kuan, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes. Using new data from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates...

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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences : The Great Migration and Civil Rights

Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement … in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights … are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration increased …

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Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them

Alesina, Alberto; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using new large-scale survey and experimental data, we investigate how respondents perceive racial inequities between Black and white Americans, what they believe causes them, and what interventions, if any, they think should be implemented to reduce them. We intentionally oversample Black...

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Racial Disparities in Housing Returns

Kermani, Amir; Wong, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We document the existence of a racial gap in realized housing returns that is an order of magnitude larger than disparities arising from housing costs alone, and is driven almost entirely by differences in distressed home sales (i.e. foreclosures and short sales). Black and Hispanic homeowners...

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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...

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Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth

Akbar, Prottoy A. - 2019

Housing is the most important asset for the vast majority of American households and a key driver of racial disparities in wealth. This paper studies how residential segregation by race eroded black wealth in prewar urban areas. Using a novel sample of matched addresses from prewar American...

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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification

Elder, Todd E. - 2019

We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are...

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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