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Wealth of Two Nations : The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, savings behavior, and capital returns in the evolution of the gap. Given vastly different starting conditions under slavery …
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The new history of capitalism and the methodologies of economic history
Geloso, Vincent; Glock, Judge - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 39 (2021), pp. 206-221
The rise of the "New History of Capitalism" as a subfield of historical studies has magnified differences between economists and historians which started to grow during the 1970s. We describe what is and what is not new about the New History of Capitalism and explain how the different...
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Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction
Margo, Robert Andrew; Boustan, Leah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The United States has a long and ongoing history of racial inequality. This paper surveys the literature on one aspect of that history: long-run trends in racial differences in health. We focus on standard measures such as infant mortality and life expectancy but also consider the available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103507
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The Roots of 'Modern Day Slavery' : The Page Act and the Mann Act
Lee, Lorelei - 2023
Usage of the phrase “modern day slavery” to describe human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, is widespread … despite work by numerous scholars and activists to point out how such usage harms attempts to remedy both slavery and … be understood as the precursors to contemporary usage of “modern day slavery” as well as to contemporary usage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344841
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Never Together : Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Temin, Peter - 2020
This paper recounts American economic history for 60 years after World War II. The unusual part of this paper is that it focuses on not only the conventional tale, but also recounts what whites did to and for Blacks over this period. It starts from the unhappy experience of a Black American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094603
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Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration
Temin, Peter - 2021
President Nixon replaced President Johnson’s War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971. This new drug war was expanded by President Reagan and others to create mass incarceration. The United States currently has a higher percentage of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228899
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Reducing racial inequality in access to the ballot reduces racial inequality in children's later-life outcomes
Jones, Daniel B.; Shi, Ying - 2022
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888365
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Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Jones, Daniel; Shi, Ying - 2022
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083843
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education : historical slavery may be a driver of human capital and its unequal racial distribution, with implications for education and income ineq...
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
Latin America up until the 19th century. However, the influence of slavery differs significantly across countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430223
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Chapter 3 Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 107-154). 2006
In this chapter we present an overview of the history of racial differences in schooling in the United States. We present basic data on literacy, school attendance, educational attainment, various measures of school quality, and the returns to schooling. Then, in the context of a simple model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023740