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The Fluidity of Race : “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940

Nix, Emily - 2015

whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade : Interstate and Racial Differences

Fuchs, Victor R. - 2010

The 1992 eighth grade mathematics test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals a low average level of achievement, wide variation across states, and a large difference in average scores of white and black students. Multiple regression analysis across states indicates that the...

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Acting White or Acting Black : Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2010

Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race … adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race … characterized as quot;whitequot;. When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is …

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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …

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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

Collins, William J. - 2011

We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007. The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households. Over...

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Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background

Black, Sandra E.; Sufi, Amir - 2021

While trends in college enrollment for blacks and whites have been the subject of study for a number of years, little attention has been paid to the variation in college enrollment by socioeconomic status (SES). It is well documented that, controlling for family background, blacks are more...

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Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition

Blau, Francine D.; Graham, John W. - 2021

Using data from the 1976 and 1978 National Longitudinal. Surveys of young men and young women, this study examines racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and...

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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …

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