In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority …

preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical quot;tipping point,quot; all the whites leave. We use … tipping points ranging from 5% to 20% minority share. The estimated discontinuities are robust to controls for a wide variety … of neighborhood characteristics, and are as strong in the suburbs as in tracts close to high-minority neighborhoods …

leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …

Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …

emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …

minority districts. I compare congressional delegations of states that during the 1990 redistricting were under greater … pressure to create majority minority districts with those under lesser pressure in a difference-in-difference framework. I find … no evidence that the creation of majority minority districts leads to more conservative House delegations. In fact point …