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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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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990

Collins, William J. - 2000

The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...

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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

Collins, William J. - 1999

The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...

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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South : A Guide and Interpretation

Collins, William J. - 2020

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime … example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social … migrants' outcomes, and then offers a more speculative interpretation of how the Great Migration fostered the advancement of …

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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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The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

Bailey, Martha J. - 2004

The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes in worker characteristics (such as education, occupation and industry, and...

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The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots : Evidence from Property Values

Collins, William J. - 2004

In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. This paper examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the...

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The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1960-970

Collins, William J. - 2003

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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The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960

Collins, William J. - 2001

By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non-southern blacks (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level 'fair employment' laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. This paper assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black...

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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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