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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...

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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings

Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...

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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...

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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design

Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...

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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality

Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...

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Racial Protests and Credit Access

Garcia, Raffi E. - 2024

We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that … model the choice as an extensive-form game, where whites choose to accept or reject a separate mulatto identity and mixed …

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Do Black Politicians Matter?

Logan, Trevon D. - 2018

This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral preferences and black representation using the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an...

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The Labor of Division : Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework

Goodman, Joshua - 2017

Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase black students' completed math coursework and their...

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