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...

To date, no empirical account exists that explains the entry of Black-owned Commercial Banks (BCBs). This study reports an analysis based on a cross-section of banking markets in which entry is treated as a discrete variable with a Poisson distribution. Estimation of a Poisson probability model...

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 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...

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...