This paper characterizes Singapore's efforts to tackle the problem of persistent racial inequality in terms of the … notion of fair meritocracy. Singapore's race policy attempts to level the playing field through its unique race-based self …

differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever … document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to … inequality. …

This study is the first to find that mate availability explains much of the race gap in non marital fertility in the … United States. Both a general and an education-based metric have strong effects. The novel statistical power arises from …

-family conflicts. Unemployment increases the likelihood of family formation among women with a moderate or low level of education. This …

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they … intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected …