The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been fertile ground for the study of discrimination due to demographic and cultural shifts in not only the teams but also the fan populace. The early research found evidence of black-white wage differentials and customer discrimination (Kahn and...

The authors examine the linkage between early-career occupational segregation and occupational mobility. Using samples from the original National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, they find evidence of race and gender differences in individuals' occupational histories. The differences by race...

The level of education spending may not only be determined by a school district's characteristics, but also by the characteristics of neighboring school districts. To properly evaluate these impacts, I use the Lesage and Pace (2009) approach which develops summary impact measures for inference...

Several econometric issues within the field of education finance, which have not been fully explored to date, are addressed. Focusing on demographic factors and per-pupil expenditure in the United States, an econometric model that incorporates spatial analysis is developed and a unique framework...

This article considers the relationship between ethnicity within the elderly population and education spending. Extensive literature analyzes the relationship between demographics and education spending. This article contributes to this literature by examining the dynamics between the elderly...

In the public finance literature it is well understood that a community's spending can be affected by neighboring communities' spending. It is relatively straightforward to see why these spillovers exist. For example, if a school district increases its spending on public education, this could...

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty transitions, with an emphasis on native-born African-Americans and immigration. A probit model is estimated using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which evaluates the impact of EITC...

This article questions whether the implementation of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) created an incentive for employers to substitute subsidized workers for incumbent workers. To see if this substitution occurs, the author uses a differences-in-differences methodology to test whether the...

This study explored the relationship between suspected mental illness and officer-involved shootings, using data from an independently sourced database. The results showed that African Americans were more likely to be victims of fatal officer-involved shootings, and this likelihood increased for...