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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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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...
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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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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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The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fryer, Roland G. - 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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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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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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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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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination
Agan, Amanda; Starr, Sonja B. - 2022
Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...
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The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1960-970
Collins, William J. - 2021
This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s using household-level and census-tract data. State-level fair-housing' laws attempted to bar discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and national origin in the sale, rental, and financing of...
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