A5088302844- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- School Choice and Performance
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Healthcare Policy and Management
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2012-2024
Stellenbosch University
2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2013-2022
Northwestern University
2013-2022
University of California, Davis
2015-2022
Duke University
2022
University of Southern Denmark
2022
University of Pittsburgh
2022
International Zinc Association
2016-2022
Cornell University
2022
I14, O15 For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Negro Male passively monitored hundreds adult black males with syphilis despite availability effective treatment. The study's methods have become synonymous exploitation and mistreatment by medical profession. To identify effects on behavior health older men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing men to other demographic groups, before after revelation, varying proximity victims. We...
The onset of World War I spurred the “Great Migration” African Americans from US South, arguably most important internal migration in history. We create a new panel dataset more than 5,000 men matched 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts address three interconnected questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large were migrants’ gains? Did narrow racial gap economic status? find evidence positive selection, but gains large. A substantial amount black-white convergence this...
We document the intergenerational mobility of Black and White American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for late nineteenth early twentieth century combining them with modern data to cover middle century. find large disparities in mobility, children having far better chances escaping bottom distribution than every generation. This gap was more important proximately determining each generation's racial initial parents' economic status. (JEL D31, J15, J62, N31, N32)
We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades “Great Migration” (1910–1930). both whites blacks intra- inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence positive selection, degree was small participation in migration widespread. Differences background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences choices. Blacks were similarly responsive pre-existing migrant stocks from their...
Competing explanations for the long-standing gap between black and white earnings attribute different weight to wage discrimination human capital differences. Using new data on local school quality, we find that played a predominant role in determining 1940 occupational status gaps South despite entrenched racial civic life lack of federal employment protections. The resulting coincides with higher end range estimates from post–Civil Rights era. We estimate truly "separate but equal" schools...
Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions the black-white wage gap have been linked to midcentury ascent of school quality. With a new data set uniquely appropriate identifying impact female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up one-third 1920–40 rise public expenditures Nineteenth Amendment. Yet continued disenfranchisement black Southerners meant white gains far outpaced those for blacks. As result, women’s suffrage exacerbated racial inequality substantially...
We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for late nineteenth early twentieth century combining them with modern data to cover middle century.We find large disparities in mobility, children having far better chances escaping bottom distribution than every generation.This gap was more important proximately determining each generation's racial initial parents' economic status.
University students have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We present results from first wave of Global Student Survey, which was administered at 28 universities in United States, Spain, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Italy, and Mexico between April October 2020. The survey addresses contemporaneous outcomes future expectations regarding three fundamental aspects students' lives pandemic: labor market, education, health. document differential responses as a function their...
Economists frequently hypothesize that industrialization contributed to the United States’ nineteenth-century fertility decline. I exploit circumstances surrounding in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 show establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6–10 percent reduction. Migrating households are responsible for most observed Higher rates employment child mortality migrants can explain part result, conjecture an increase child-raising costs induced by separation migrant from their...
Theories of the demographic transition often center on rising price children. A model fertility derived from household production in antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes slaveholdings beget changes marginal product slaveowners' and, hence, their price. I use panel data slaveowning households between 1850 1870 to measure responses exogenous slaveholdings. Results indicate a strong, negative correlation child prices fertility.
For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Negro Male passively monitored hundreds adult black males with syphilis despite availability effective treatment.The study's methods have become synonymous exploitation and mistreatment by medical profession.To identify effects on behavior health older men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing men to other demographic groups, before after revelation, varying proximity victims.We find that...
Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households’ landholdings 1880 alongside sample White households. We then link sons from all households 1900 census records their economic human capital outcomes. show that landowners, relative laborers, substantial intergenerational advantages sons, particularly literacy homeownership....
We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades "Great Migration" .We both whites blacks intra-and inter-regional migration.While there is some evidence positive selection, degree was small participation in migration widespread.Differences background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences choices.Blacks were similarly responsive pre-existing migrant stocks from their home state,...
The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market.Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination access human capital.Using new data on local school quality, we find that capital played predominant role in determining 1940 occupational status gaps South despite effective disenfranchisement blacks, entrenched racial civic life, lack federal employment protections.The conditional black-white coincides with higher end...