Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the … number of loans per employer business or loan amounts per employee, and the minority share of the population or businesses in … round of 2020. We find a stronger positive relationship between minority share and loan numbers or amounts to employer …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … with required attendance provides frequent interactions with the TA. We find evidence that underrepresented minority … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …