Journal ArticleNature human behaviour · June 2025
Enslavement of African Americans and the legacy of structural racism have led to disproportionate hardship for black people in the USA. Reparations realize unfulfilled promises of financial compensation and redress. Existing US reparations initiatives have ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · February 2025
Slavery, legal segregation, and ongoing discrimination have exacted an unfathomable toll on the black population in the United States, particularly with respect to the impact on health outcomes. In recent years, various researchers and activists have sugge ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Law and Social Science · October 17, 2024
A rich empirical literature documents the consequences of mass incarceration for the wealth, health, and safety of Black Americans. Yet it often frames such consequences as a regrettable artifact of racially disproportionate criminal legal system contact, ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and Change · July 1, 2024
This study begins with an overview of illustrative scenarios that historically have resulted in imbalances of economic well-being, growth and stability which demarcate the Global South and the Global North. The authors examine alternative approaches to rep ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family and Economic Issues · June 1, 2024
This paper examines the financial health of racial-ethnic groups in Tulsa, Oklahoma, nearly a century after the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. We use data from the Tulsa National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) survey to assess the financial health ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · June 1, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. Reparations are a program of acknowledgment, redress, and clo ...
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Journal ArticleApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy · March 1, 2024
The origin of inequality between social identity groups is anchored in acts of violent dispossession of freedom and property by the group seeking the advantages of dominance. The beginning of contemporary disparities in income and especially wealth between ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · March 1, 2024
This paper describes Latinx stratification economics (LSE) as a scholarly approach to studying the economic status of Latinas/os/es/xs primarily in the United States. We coin the term LSE to refer to work that draws on and is in conversation with both the ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · January 1, 2024
Disparities across social identity groups (such as race, caste, and ethnicity) are a global phenomenon, where significant differences in wealth and other socioeconomic outcomes are observed. Although the contexts and historical roots of these differences v ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine · September 2023
IntroductionSocial determinants are structures and conditions in the biological, physical, built, and social environments that affect health, social and physical functioning, health risk, quality of life, and health outcomes. The adoption of recom ...
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Book · January 1, 2023
This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers a ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of Economics Review · January 1, 2023
In their stormy response to Nancy MacLean's book Democracy in Chains, some academics on the libertarian right have conducted a concerted defense of Nobel Laureate James Buchanan's credentials as an anti-racist, or at least a non-racist. An odd component of ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
In this chapter, stratification economics provides a vehicle for analyzing attitudes toward affirmative action. The chapter begins with a historical example of an American politician who relied on racial tension and the fears of the dominant group to garne ...
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Journal ArticlePsycholog Relig Spiritual · November 2022
Religion and spirituality (R/S) play a central role in shaping the contextual experiences of many Black people in the United States. Blacks are among the most religiously engaged groups in the country. Levels and types of religious engagement, however, can ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA network open · November 2022
ImportanceIn the US, Black individuals die younger than White individuals and have less household wealth, a legacy of slavery, ongoing discrimination, and discriminatory public policies. The role of wealth inequality in mediating racial health ine ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Evolutionary Political Economy · October 1, 2022
Informed by insights drawn from stratification economics and deploying dynamic game theory, we project the long-term outcome of racial/ethnic wealth disparities under multiple policy scenarios. At the core of the analysis is the character of investment ind ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Literature · June 1, 2022
This article provides an overview of the origins and development of stratification economics as a subfield that centers the importance of identity, social ranking, and relative group position. Stratification economics developed in response to explanations ...
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Journal ArticleIlr Review · May 1, 2022
Racial differences in effort at work, if they exist, can potentially explain race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market. The authors estimate specifications of time spent on non-work activities at work by Black and White males and females wit ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization · February 1, 2022
We conducted lab experiments at a historically black university (HBCU), replicating the design and procedure, but not the results, of previous stereotype threat studies. The experimental design has two factors: stereotype salience (priming) and the identit ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Issues · January 1, 2022
People’s social class, and the perceptions of their social class are embedded in an institutional context that has important ramifications for one’s life opportunities and outcomes. Research on first impressions has found that people are relatively accurat ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Economics · January 1, 2022
There have been decades of research on wage gaps for groups based on their socially salient identities, such as race and gender, but little empirical investigation on the effects of holding multiple identities. Using the Current Population Survey, this stu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Education · January 1, 2022
Dominion of the scarcity principle as the basis for economic analysis is virtually absolute in teaching the introductory course in economics. This supremacy is neither valid nor desirable. Two compelling alternative foundational concepts for economics are ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
This chapter examines W. E. B. Du Bois’s views regarding claims for reparations for Black Americans descendants of persons enslaved in the United States, deriving from the multigenerational impact of slavery, legal segregation, and ongoing discrimination a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities · October 2021
Hypertension, a major cardiovascular disease risk factor, is disproportionately prevalent among African American young adults. Religion and spirituality (R/S) have been studied for their potential effect on blood pressure (BP) outcomes. Despite their dispr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Sci Study Relig · September 2021
Religiosity is a potential social determinant of obesity risk among black Americans, a group that tends to be highly religious and disproportionately suffers from this disease. Although religious engagement differs within this group, researchers often clas ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Economic Policy · July 1, 2021
A convention, particularly in economics and sociology, for empirical identification of the “middle class” has been to mark off a segment of the population above a lower bound with respect to income, occupational status, and/or educational attainment. Inste ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · May 2021
BackgroundIn the United States, Black Americans are suffering from a significantly disproportionate incidence of COVID-19. Going beyond mere epidemiological tallying, the potential for racial-justice interventions, including reparations payments, ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · May 1, 2021
What does it mean to be working class in a society of extreme racial wealth inequality? Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, we investigate the wealth holdings of Black, Latinx, and white working-class households during the post–Great Recession ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · February 1, 2021
In this article, we use administrative data from three cohorts of North Carolina public high school students to examine the effects of within-school segregation on the propensity of academically eligible black high school students to take advanced math cou ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · February 1, 2021
W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that black students are better served by attending predominantly black schools than hostile integrated schools in a context of racial discrimination. The conventional assumption is that black students benefit educationally by attend ...
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Journal ArticleJ Relig Health · December 2020
Prior investigations of the relationships between religious denomination and diabetes and obesity do not consider the nuance within black faith traditions. This study used data from the National Survey of American Life (n = 4344) to identify denominational ...
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Journal ArticleMaternal and child health journal · October 2020
IntroductionIn 2016, March of Dimes (MOD) launched its Prematurity Collaborative to engage a broad cross section of national experts to address persistent and widening racial disparities in preterm birth by achieving equity and demonstrated improv ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · September 1, 2020
We compare the 2018 per capita Black–White wealth gap of about US$352,250 with portions of the estimated total cost of slavery and discrimination to African American descendants of the enslaved. For the period of slavery in the United States, we arrive at ...
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Journal ArticleSSM - population health · December 2019
BackgroundA startling population health phenomenon has been unfolding since the turn of the 21st century. Whites in the United States, who customarily have the most favorable mortality profile of all racial groups, have experienced rising mortalit ...
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Journal ArticleDu Bois Review · September 1, 2019
Much of the pivotal debate concerning the validity of affirmative action is situated in a legal context of defending or challenging claims that there may be broad societal gains from increased diversity. Race-conscious affirmative action policies originall ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
Since at least the early twentieth century, U.S. housing polices have consistently promoted homeownership. While historically homeownership has been a significant source of wealth for many non-Hispanic Whites, this has not been the case for most Blacks, du ...
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Journal ArticleUrban Education · September 1, 2018
This study uses a North Carolina administrative data set to analyze racial segregation and student achievement in Wake County during race-based and income-based school assignment plans. We find a modest increase in the level of racial segregation in Wake s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of demographic economics · September 2018
Female family headship has strong implications for endemic poverty in the United States. Consequently, it is imperative to explore the chief factors that contribute to this problem. Departing from prior literature that places significant weight on welfare- ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · September 1, 2018
Fifty years after the national Kerner Commission report on urban unrest and fifty-three years after California's McCone Commission report on the 1965 Watts riots, substantial racial disparity in education, housing, employment, and wealth is still pervasive ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · September 1, 2018
Using an intersectional lens of race and gender, this article offers a critique of the Kerner Commission report and fills the gap of the missing analysis of white rage and of black women. A protracted history of white race riots resulted in the loss of bla ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics of the Household · June 1, 2018
A large share of the American population suffers from traumatic experiences early in life. Many adults are also victims of trauma. Using data drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey–Replication, we examine the link between self-reported happiness, a bro ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · June 1, 2018
The socioeconomic position of Blacks in America cannot be fully contextualized without considering the marginalization of their racialized social identities as minorities who have historically combated subjugation and oppression with respect to income, emp ...
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Journal ArticleRsf · February 1, 2018
Poverty in the United States, one of the world's most wealthy and prosperous nations, is persistently high. Despite a complex array of social insurance programs in place, 43.1 million people remain in poverty. Because unemployment is a strong predictor of ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · September 2, 2017
We analyse survey data from the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color Project for asset accumulation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The survey oversampled the American Indian/Alaska Native population in order to examine asset accumulation among a variety ...
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Book · April 3, 2017
This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. ...
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Journal ArticleFederal Reserve Bank of St Louis Review · January 1, 2017
This article examines the mismatch between the political discourse around individual agency, education, and financial literacy, and the actual racial wealth gap. The authors argue that the racial wealth gap is rooted in socioeconomic and political structur ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
This chapter review the burden of acting white hypothesis, describes the current debate, and uses interview data from eight secondary schools in North Carolina to assess the hypothesis. It finds that a burden of acting white exists for some black students, ...
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Book · January 1, 2017
Charles Murray, in a remarkable examination of American social policy since 1950, arrives at some unconventional conclusions about the potential of social transfer programs to reduce poverty. The conclusions of Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1 ...
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Journal ArticleSSM - population health · December 2016
Despite a general acceptance of "race" as a social, rather than biological construct in the social sciences, racial health disparities research has given less consideration to the dimensions of race that may be most important for shaping persistent dispari ...
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Journal ArticleChina Economic Review · December 1, 2016
Since the end of the 1980s, the number of migrants working in the urban labor market has increased dramatically. However, migrant workers are treated differently from urban workers. In this paper we examine the labor market discrimination against rural mig ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · July 2016
Prior research suggests that racial inequalities in health vary in magnitude across societies. This paper uses the largest nationally representative samples available to compare racial inequalities in health in the United States and Canada. Data were obtai ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · June 1, 2016
Lighter skin complexions may function as a form of capital, particularly for women, in marriage markets. The existence of a preference for light skin for marital partners is an index of the presence of colorism or color bias in a given society. This paper ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Social Problems · March 1, 2016
Using the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth to explore the interwoven links between race, wealth and incarceration, this study examines the data on race and wealth status before and after incarceration. Data indicate that although hig ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Social Problems · March 1, 2016
New data collected for the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area provide detailed information on financial assets that allow analysis to extend beyond the traditional black–white divide. Targeting US-born blacks, Caribbean blacks, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, ...
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Journal ArticleSociology of Race and Ethnicity · January 1, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a labor market penalty exists for members of immigrant groups as a result of being phenotypically different from white Americans. Specifically, the authors examine the link between skin shade, perhaps the m ...
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Chapter · September 25, 2015
An analysis of the energy crisis in the United States is advanced that draws upon Marxist dialectical materialism. The character of U.S. energy policy is explained as the outcome of the interplay of a young, newly powerful managerial class and the older, s ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · June 1, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to formally evaluate whether the deleterious impact of unemployment on mental health increases as skin shade darkens for black women in the U.S. Using data drawn from the National Survey of American Life, we find strong evidenc ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · June 1, 2015
This special edition of the Review of Black Political Economics provides a contribution to the growing, vital and intellectually rich field of stratification economics. Stratification economics is an emerging field in economics that seeks to expand the bou ...
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Journal ArticleLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies · September 2, 2014
Racial identity is endogenous and should be considered a dependent variable in many contexts. Relying on quantitative methods, we examine why some Afro-Brazilians in Salvador and São Paulo choose black identities despite prevailing negative stereotypes in ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science Quarterly · January 1, 2014
Objectives: This article offers new evidence on whether stalking damages the mental health of female victims. This study advances the literature by accounting for age of initial stalking victimization, mental health status prior to being stalked, and expos ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of Political Economy · January 1, 2014
We examine the history of the entry of black American graduate students into the PhD program in economics at MIT in the 1970s. The deployment of an active and aggressive affirmative action program led to the presence of a critical mass of black doctoral st ...
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Book · January 1, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in fina ...
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Chapter · 2012
Over 35 years ago, Barbara Bergmann (1971) hypothesized that labor market discrimination against black males is manifest in a "crowding" effect, which results in lower earnings. White employers' refusal to hire blacks in certain occupations forces them to ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Over 35 years ago, Barbara Bergmann (1971) hypothesized that labor market discrimination against black males is manifest in a "crowding" effect, which results in lower earnings. White employers' refusal to hire blacks in certain occupations forces them to ...
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ConferenceReview United States · January 1, 2012
The publication of Eric Williams' 1938 Oxford doctoral dissertation makes his thesis widely available for the first time. It provides an opportunity for reading the dissertation with a fresh eye unfiltered by the misleading interpretation advanced by the B ...
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Journal ArticleThe Review of Black Political Economy · January 2012
The U.S. is characterized by a longstanding pattern of large structural racial inequality that deepens further as a result of economic downturn. Although there have been some improvements in the income gap up until around the mid 1970s, the employ ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology · January 1, 2011
Abstract: We explore the consequences for eligibility of members of subaltern groups for affirmative action (AA), when AA policies are based on social class criteria rather than on group affiliation (race, ethnicity, or gender), by means of a general model ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and human biology · July 2010
Theoretical justifications for state-sanctioned sterilization of individuals provided by Irving Fisher rationalized its racialization on grounds that certain non-white racial groups, particularly blacks due to their dysgenic biological and behavioral trait ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Development Economics · May 1, 2010
We examine how different methods of reparations payments to African-Americans affect both the black and nonblack populations of the United States using the framework of the transfer-problem from international trade theory as a theoretical foundation. We fi ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · April 2010
Equity and social well-being considerations make Black-White health disparities an area of important concern. Although previous research suggests that discrimination- and poverty-related stressors play a role in African American health outcomes, the mechan ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2010
The emergence of putative race-specific or ethnic-specific medicines appears to be overturning a new consensus reached by physical anthropologists that race is a biological fiction. This article examines whether there is substance to the notion that conven ...
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Journal ArticleThe Review of Black Political Economy · January 2010
Despite an enormous and persistent black-white wealth gap, the ascendant American narrative is one that proclaims that our society has transcended the racial divide. The proclamation often is coupled with the claim that remaining disparities are d ...
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Journal ArticleDiversity in Higher Education · December 1, 2009
There has been much discussion, but little research about why African American males do not attend and or complete a college education. We examine the alternatives that might reduce or compete with the decision to complete a college education. We analyze t ...
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Chapter · July 8, 2009
Examines the empirical relationship between residential segregation in a metropolitan area and racial wage disparities in the same metropolitan area; details the correlation between loan denial rates and racial wage disparities in MSAs and accounts for com ...
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Chapter · July 8, 2009
Reviews how educational inequities are no longer solely shaped by residential segregation but are increasingly based on diff erential access to quality instruction and curricula within schools, selectively determined by race. Eff ective alternatives includ ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Information Theory · January 1, 2009
Expander graphs have been recently proposed to construct efficient compressed sensing algorithms. In particular, it has been shown that any n-dimensional vector that is k-sparse can be fully recovered using O(k log n) measurements and only O(k log n) simpl ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science Quarterly · September 2008
In general, a program of reparations is intended to achieve three objectives: acknowledgment of a grievous injustice, redress for the injustice, and closure of the grievances held by the group subjected to the injustice. Three types of injustices m ...
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Journal ArticleHispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences · August 2008
Scholars have found that poor English proficiency is negatively associated with wages using self-reported measures. However, these estimates may suffer from misclassification bias. Interviewer ratings are likely to more accurately proxy employer a ...
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Journal ArticleThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology · April 2008
Abstract. Antidiscrimination laws are designed to prompt employers to stop excluding black workers from jobs they offer and from treating them unequally with respect to promotion and salaries once on the j ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · January 1, 2007
The literature on the black middle class has focused predominantly on married-couple families with children, reflecting a conception of the black middle class as principally composed of this family type. If that conception is correct, then declining rates ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2006
Maynard Keynes did not tend to look backward. Instead of continuously resurrecting positions he had taken at earlier stages of his intellectual development as an economist, his inclination was to layout his latest position in an entirely new work. Perhaps ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern Economic Journal · January 1, 2006
The theory of ability misperception posits that employers will offer greater rewards to whites than nonwhites for similar levels of prior experience (Proposition 1) but that racial/ethnic differences in the return to additional tenure or seniority with the ...
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Journal ArticleInternational quarterly of community health education · January 2006
ObjectiveTo carry out a community-based research approach to determine the most effective educational interventions to reduce smoking among African-American smokers. The intervention included preparation of the community, planning and developing a ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · August 2005
For two decades the acting white hypothesis—the premise that black students are driven toward low school performance because of racialized peer pressure—has served as an explanation for the black-white achievement gap. Fordham and Ogbu proposed th ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2005
In late April 2002 the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a major interdisciplinary and multimedia conference entitled "Dialogues on Race and Identity: A Tomming and Passing Symposium." The confer ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2005
The very construction of the notion of the "mestizo" ("mestizaje") as the Mexican racial archetype-an admixture of Spanish ancestry and native ancestry-systematically omits the African origins of the Mexican population. Based upon longstanding American nor ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics Economists and Expectations from Microfoundations to Macroapplications · March 4, 2004
The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previ ...
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Journal ArticleRace, Liberalism, and Economics · 2004
There is substantial racial disparity in the American economy, and a major cause of this is discriminatory treatment within labor markets. The evidence is ubiquitous and includes careful research studies that estimate wage and employment regressions, help- ...
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Journal ArticleBoundaries of Clan and Color Transnational Comparisons of Inter Group Disparity · May 21, 2003
Economic disparity between ethnic and racial groups is a ubiquitous and pervasive phenomenon internationally. Gaps between groups encompass employment, wage, occupational status and wealth differentials. Virtually every nation is comprised of a group whose ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · February 2003
The author examines available evidence on the effects of exposure to joblessness on emotional well-being according to race and sex. The impact of racism on general health outcomes also is considered, particularly racism in the specific form of wage discrim ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Social Economics · January 1, 2001
Advances a framework for understanding the mechanisms that maintain unearned or inherited advantage or privilege in a hierarchical world of unequal rewards and differential opportunity. Central in this framework is the presence of a dominant group and a su ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family History · October 1998
This article tests the hypothesis that judicial arbitrariness dominated alimony or child support appeals in the pre-no-fault era by analyzing data on all alimony and child support appeals in the District of Columbia from 1950 through 1980. Censore ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Perspectives · May 1, 1998
There is substantial racial and gender disparity in the American economy. As we will demonstrate, discriminatory treatment within the labor market is a major cause of this inequality. Yet, there appear to have been particular periods in which raci ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · 1998
The Thernstroms have challenged the long established "stylized fact" that blacks earn less than otherwise comparable whites. They argue that research that neglects the influence of cognitive ability on wage is responsible for this finding. In the Thernstro ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern Economic Journal · 1998
One explanation for the widening of racial earnings gaps among family heads during the 1980s is that black families were increasingly headed by females during that period. This explanation is tested using data on black and white family heads in 1976 and 19 ...
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Journal ArticleMetroeconomica · January 1, 1997
The dynamics of Ester Boserup's model of intensification of ``primitive'' (non-chemical, non-mechanized) agriculture have been worked out in three papers by Darity, Pryor and Maurer, and Salehi-Isfahani under conditions where techniques generating higher l ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · 1997
Historically, economists have taken the position that psychological capital is either unobservable or unmeasurable; thus, heretofore, little evidence has been available on the contribution of psychological capital to wages. Using data drawn from two differ ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · 1997
Campbell and Warner contend that there are two major problems with my presentation of a formal structure for analysis of a gender-segregated low-income economy in an earlier issue of this journal. Their first argument that there is no explicit treatment of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Socio-Economics · 1997
Social psychologists Erikson (1959), Jahoda (1979, 1981, 1982) and Seligman (1975) believe that exposure to events such as joblessness are capable of impairing an individual's psychological well-being. Psychological well-being is a multidimensional concept ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Causes Control · May 1996
To determine whether Black women with symptoms of uterine corpus cancer had longer times from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation than did White women in the United States, 331 newly diagnosed patients living in Atlanta (GA), New Orleans (L ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology · 1996
By utilizing self-reported race and ancestry in the 1980 and 1990 USA censuses and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, the extent of wage discrimination experienced by women and by men is examined across 50 ethnic/racial groups. Systematic evidence ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · 1995
Based upon insights drawn from research concerning the nature of the gender-based division of labor in agrarian regions of developing countries, a formal model is advanced of the interactions that take place in such a setting. Males are characterized as se ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · September 1990
Commercial directories and governmental lists of dwelling units in low income urban Black communities in four eastern cities were evaluated for completeness. With rare exceptions, less than 90 percent of dwelling units were included in any one list and no ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the National Cancer Institute · May 1990
The questions of the extent of progress against cancer and how to measure it have stimulated attention among scientists and in Congress. In this presentation, we summarize a report requested by the Senate Appropriations Committee to address the adequacy of ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Economic Policy · January 1, 1990
Violent crime contributes to depleting the supply of marriageable males in minority communities. Young black males die disproportionately due to homicides. Also, a disproportionate number of young black males are in prisons and jails. Consequently, they ar ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · March 1, 1987
South Africa's apartheid scheme is considered as a paradigm case for the creation and maltreatment of a putatively surplus population. Both active and passive policies are identified that are utilized to contain the numbers of the black population of the n ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic History · 1985
More than a century after its termination the slave trade in Africa remains a controversial topic. In particular, disputes continue to wax strong over the profitability of the Atlantic slave trade, on three major dimensions: the degree of competition chara ...
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