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Colorism and African American Wealth : Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South
Bodenhorn, Howard; Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2021
Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate into significant differences in outcomes. Data on more than 15,000 households interviewed during the 1860 federal census exhibit sharp differences in wealth holdings between white, mulatto, and black households in the urban...
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Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition
Blau, Francine D.; Graham, John W. - 2021
Using data from the 1976 and 1978 National Longitudinal. Surveys of young men and young women, this study examines racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225146
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The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth
Doraszelski, Ulrich; Altonji, Joseph G. - 2021
We explore the extent to which the huge race gap in wealth can be explained with properly constructed income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245303
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Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap : A Nonparametric Approach
Barsky, Robert; Bound, John; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2021
This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760096
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2009
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...
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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2021
complementary with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers%u2013and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to … of education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as … skill is often correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240656
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Race Matters : Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
Akee, Randall - 2017
This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …–2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …
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The Fluidity of Race : “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940
Nix, Emily - 2015
whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030626