Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young adults, mortality has been falling more quickly in poorer areas with the result that inequality in...

This paper investigates, theoretically and empirically, differences between blacks and whites in the U.S. concerning the intergenerational transmission of occupational skills and the effects on sons' earnings. The father-son skill correlation is measured by the correlation coefficient (or cosine...

The position of African American men in the US labor market prior to the Great Recession -- African American male unemployment during the Great Recession in comparison to other groups and theoretical considerations -- African American men's decline in labor market status during the Great...

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

The man don't need me anymore: from free labor to displaced persons -- This is home: black workers' responses to displacement and out-migration -- They could make some decisions: the war on poverty and community action -- Okra is a threat: the low-income cooperative movement -- OEO is finished:...

Concepts and methods: understanding opportunity shifts among transit operators in the post-affirmative action era -- From exclusion to selective inclusion: pre-1975 employment trends in the transit industry -- Open doors, segregated facilities: African American women's incorporation into AC...

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Growing Impact of African-American Women-Owned Businesses -- 2. You Want to Do What? Turning Your Idea Into Your Business -- 3. I Think I Love You: Branding Your Passion and Understanding Your Unique Value...

Introduction: why this book? Why now? -- section 1. At the dawn of democracy. The state of black economic disempowerment at the dawn of democracy and the conundrums facing the new government ; One big 'miracle' should beget many others: election euphoria and the post-election hangover ;...

"What does globalization look like in the rural South? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi's chicken processing communities and workplaces, where large numbers of Latin American migrants began arriving in the mid-1990s to labor alongside an established African American...

Microfinance and Black people -- Contextualizing microfinance in Jamaica, Guyana, and Haiti -- Cultural politics, bias, and microfinance -- Violence against borrowers and lenders in microfinance -- Alternative banking among the African diaspora -- Banking on indigenous systems

Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...