This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the … for mortality. The black population has experienced absolute convergence but relative deterioration in mortality (neonatal … and infant mortality, maternal mortality, expectation of life at birth, and age-adjusted death rates), in contrast to the …

differences in their mortality risks. A dynamic optimal stopping-point life cycle model is examined, in which group …-level mortality risk plays an important role in determining individual-level mortality risk, health expenditure,and the amount of … schooling. The model is calibrated to quantify the effect of mortality risks on schooling by taking the black and white male …

This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and … and had higher older age mortality rates …

This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the …-origin, and Amerindian populations. This has not been true for mortality. The black population has experienced absolute … convergence but relative deterioration in mortality (neonatal and infant mortality, maternal mortality, expectation of life at …

A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities … is income inequality in general. Conditional on the fraction black, neither city nor state mortality rates are correlated … with income inequality. Mortality rates are higher where the fraction black is higher, not only because of the mechanical …

This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …–2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …

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

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment … discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … to younger white applicants, and we find no evidence that the signal strength of the applicant's address varies by race …

Race has long been recognized as playing a critical role in policing. In spite of this awareness, there has been … non-whites. Similarly arrests of non-whites, but do not systematically affect the number of white arrests. The race of … police officers has a less clear-cut impact on crime rates. It appears that own-race policing may be more effective in …