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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of 35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe economic loss, but the massacre also sent a warning to Black individuals across the country that similar events were possible in...
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Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through the 1980s, and were arguably the most substantive national attempt to improve educational access for African American children in modern American history. Using large Census...
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expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost …
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This paper documents that the employment of Asian Americans with no college education has been especially hard hit by the economic crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. This cannot be explained by differences in demographics or in job characteristics. Asian American employment is also...
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The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
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Using a novel method to measure racism at the individual and country level, we show, our measure of racism has a strong … different hypotheses concerning the origin of racism and its channels of impact to establish causality. We find racism is not …, we show, for former colonies, racism is strongly correlated with the presence of extractive institutions during colonial …
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