-born blacks who finished their schooling just before effective desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to … desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable …

Historic patterns of racialized oppression, discrimination, and prejudice have been linked to contemporary levels of … pattern in the American South, this link is tested using historical and contemporary data from the US Census Bureau, the …

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … which a sharp increase in discrimination induced mass exit by one ethnic group and mass skill investment by the same group …

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … which a sharp increase in discrimination induced mass exit by one ethnic group and mass skill investment by the same group …

. We find support for this channel during the rapid expansion of NAACP branches in the South around WWII. Branch growth was … stronger where Black workers were denied returns to schooling due to Jim Crow occupational discrimination. We further show that … a pre-1931 large-scale school construction program caused greater NAACP activity during the 1940s and 1950s when many …