Acemoglu et al. (2014) explore the contribution of the swift rise of import penetration from China to U.S. employment growth. Using industry-level analysis to compare changes in relative employment among industries with varying levels of trade exposure they find that the increase in U.S. imports...

This research examines the benefits of attending HBCUs vs PWI for black college students. Using a College Board Data set merged with National Student Clearing House data this paper finds that there is an increase in the likelihood of graduating with a bachelor's degree for black students...

This paper provides an evolutionary rationale for both interracial and intraracial wage differentials by examining the implications of white employers mediating their employer-employee relationships on the basis of genetic similarity. If in organized labor markets, relationships mediated through...

Consumer discrimination, to the extent that it discourages the entry of Black-owned firms may be welfare reducing, as market output is lower than otherwise. This paper offers a simple model of duopoly in which conditions are derived for which a profit subsidy to Black-owned firms increases,...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively affects later stage mental and physical health, it can possibly constrain later stage human capital acquisition, which is an important driver of economic growth. This paper considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent...

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our...

This white paper considers the low participation rate of black and Hispanic Principal Investigators (PLs) and the distribution by institution among National Science Foundation (NSF) basic economics research grants. An analysis of NSF economics grants between 1990 - 2010 show that black and...

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our...

This paper considers the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight. With data on inmates incarcerated in the Tennessee and Illinois state penitentiaries between 1831 and 1892, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the...