initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. -- race ; inequality … ; education ; slavery ; development …We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …

channels of transmission between slavery and violent crime: inequality, a culture of violence, and ethnic fractionalization …This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violence in the USA. Although considerable … qualitative evidence suggests that slavery has been a key factor behind the prevalence of violence, especially in Southern USA …

This paper documents the emergence of a race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Counties …

heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education …

differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …

The relative incomes and education-levels of Black and white populations in the United States and Brazil are considered …, the effects of demography, education, and regional migration on the Black-white income gap are disentangled using census … inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …