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Migration and loving
Gevrek, Deniz - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males … intraracially married black males into destination states differentially. -- interracial marriage ; migration ; anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688896
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The forest behind the tree : heterogeneity in how US governor's party affects black workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
Income inequality is a distributional phenomenon. This paper examines the impact of U.S governor's party allegiance (Republican vs Democrat) on ethnic wage gap. A descriptive analysis of the distribution of yearly earnings of Whites and Blacks reveals a divergence in their respective shapes over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627858
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Racial Differences in Transitions to Marriage for Unmarried Mothers
Daniels, Gerald - 2019
Unlike prior studies that have explained racial differences in the transitions to marriage among unmarried women, our … study uses the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine racial differences in the transitions to marriage among … unmarried women following a non-marital birth. We find that Black mothers are 60-65% more likely to delay marriage after a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903051
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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage
Gevrek, Deniz - 2020
black/white educational distributions in marriage markets.The first contribution of this study is to provide an answer to … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825596
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
black/white educational distributions in marriage markets. The first contribution of this study is to provide an answer to … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266431
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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945
This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306334
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The External Effects of Black-Male Incarceration on Black Females
Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2007
marriage is less persuasive. Results using prison capacity expansions as an instrument, drawing on the incarceration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729762
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Incarceration, Earnings, and Race
Athreya, Kartik; Gordon, Grey; Jones, John Bailey; … - 2022
We study the implications of incarceration for the earnings and employment of different groups, characterized by their race, gender, and education. Our hidden Markov model distinguishes between first-time and repeat incarceration, along with other persistent and transitory nonemployment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292352
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Did the Black Death cause economic development by "inventing" fertility restriction?
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2018
unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845175
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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings
Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575143