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Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940

Dahis, Ricardo - 2019

This paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880 - 1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races. We provide a rich set of descriptive evidence on the lives of black men "passing" for...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

Card, David - 2018

attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation …

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The Economics of African American Slavery : The Cliometrics Debate

Sutch, Richard C. - 2018

This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here "cliometrics" is defined as a method of scientific analysis marked by the explicit use of economic theory and quantitative...

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The Decline of African-American and Hispanic Wealth since the Great Recession

Wolff, Edward N. - 2018

to 0.19. Minorities had much higher debt-net worth ratios in 2007 - 0.55 for blacks, 0.51 for Hispanics, and 0.18 for … for blacks and Hispanics than whites (by 0.120 and 0.093 Gini points, but AW inequality was considerably lower (by 0 ….046 points for blacks and by 0.015 points for Hispanics. Social Security was the principal factor …

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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Changes in Black-White Inequality : Evidence from the Boll Weevil

Clay, Karen - 2020

This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on black-white inequality in the first half of the twentieth century. To do this we use complete count census data to generate a linked sample of fathers and their sons. We find that the boll weevil...

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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South : A Guide and Interpretation

Collins, William J. - 2020

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This essay offers a concise...

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The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage : Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act

Bailey, Martha J. - 2020

This paper examines the short and longer-term economic effects of the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which increased the national minimum wage to its highest level of the 20th Century and extended coverage to an additional 9.1 million workers. Exploiting differences in the "bite" of the...

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Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions

Arnold, David - 2020

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the context of bail decisions. We show that the omitted variables bias in observational release rate comparisons can be purged by using the quasi-random...

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...

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