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Racial Disparities in Frontline Workers and Housing Crowding During COVID-19 : Evidence from Geolocation Data

Almagro, Milena - 2020

We document that racial disparities in COVID-19 in New York City stem from patterns of commuting and housing crowding. During the initial wave of the pandemic, out- of-home activity related to commuting is strongly associated with COVID-19 cases at the ZIP Code level and hospitalization at an...

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Racial Disparities and Bias in Consumer Bankruptcy

Argyle, Bronson; Indarte, Sasha; Iverson, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We document substantial racial disparities in consumer bankruptcy outcomes and investigate the role of racial bias in contributing to these disparities. Using data on the near universe of US bankruptcy cases and self-reported and manually-identified measures of race, we show that minority filers...

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Wealth of Two Nations : The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, savings behavior, and capital returns in the evolution of the gap. Given vastly different starting conditions under slavery …

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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...

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Comment on "Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks"

Haddad, Joanne; Kattan, Lamis; Wochner, Timo - 2023

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What the students for fair admissions cases reveal about racial preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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The Long Road to Equality : Racial Capital and Generational Convergence

Bayer, Patrick J.; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Park, JoonYup - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

, Hispanic, and White children born around 1980 imply that metro-level racial capital measures: (i) have substantial power to …

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Money or Time? Heterogeneous Effects of Unconditional Cash on Parental Investments

Shah, Hema; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Magnuson, Katherine A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

time investments in children. This study offers a novel opportunity to examine heterogeneous effects of a cash transfer by …, effects on monetary and time investments in children differed. Latino families' child-focused expenditures increased …, equivalent to nearly one-third of the cash transfer, with no effect on maternal employment or time spent with children. Among …

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … on children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children …

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … on children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children …

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