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Up from Slavery? African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880

Collins, William J. - 2017

We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new datasets to study the late 19th and early 20th century and combining them with modern data to cover the mid- to late 20th century. We find large disparities in intergenerational...

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Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s : Gender Differences in Trends

Blau, Francine D. - 1991

This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...

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Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition

Blau, Francine D. - 1989

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...

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

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 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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The Great Migration in Black and White : New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Collins, William J. - 2015

first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration …. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was …

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Municipal Housekeeping : The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2015

Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the mid-century ascent of school quality. With a new dataset uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the...

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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans : New Evidence from Linked Census Data

Collins, William J. - 2013

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most … important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 … census manuscripts to address three interconnected questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large …

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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