Do racial disparities in the paid labor market also extend to the unpaid labor market? Using American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data, we find that Black people spend 13% less time at work than white people, and 17% less time in volunteering. Using an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we show that...

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....