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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...

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African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880

Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne - 2021

We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and combining them with modern data to cover the middle and late twentieth century. We find large disparities...

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Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States : An Intergenerational Perspective

Chetty, Raj - 2018

We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U … on parent income, the black-white income gap is driven by differences in wages and employment rates between black and … mobility more similar to whites than blacks, leading the Hispanic-white income gap to shrink across generations. Second …

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Amidst Poverty and Prejudice : Black and Irish Civil War Veterans

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2014

This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War veterans during the postbellum period. The information in our data is from a variety of circumstances across an individual's life span, and we use that to attempt to explain...

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The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2010

Until the 1960s, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were practically the only institutions of higher learning open to Blacks in the US. Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s HBCU matriculation was associated...

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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

Collins, William J. - 2011

We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007. The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households. Over...

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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap

Carruthers, Celeste - 2016

The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...

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

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010

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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Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Wwii

Aizer, Anna; Boone, Ryan; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Vogel, … - 2022

The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms, we find that war production contracts...

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