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Title: Three Essays on Race and Human Capital

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The following presents three essays on racial disparities in human capital investments and returns to skill over the life-cycle. The first chapter, The Source of Black-White Inequality in Early Language Acquisition: Evidence from Early Head Start, addresses the source and timing of divergence in the accumulation of early childhood skills between black and white children. The second chapter, The Effects of the Jeanes and Rosenwald Funds on Black Education by 1930: Comparing Returns on Investments in Teachers and Schools, estimates the combined and comparative effects of two large philanthropies targeting rural black schools in the segregated South. The third chapter, Blurring the Color Line: Wages and Employment for Black Males of Different Skin Tones, co-authored with Marcos Rangel, tests for wage differentials within race, across skin color, utilizing a measure of skin tone placed in a prominent social survey. Taken together, these essays evaluate the role race plays in inequality above and beyond what can be explained away by racial disparities in wealth, family circumstances, prior education and other comparable measures. Each essay is written from a human capital perspective, drawing on literature in economics, public policy and education, seeking to broaden our understanding of the incongruous relationship between race and inequality in America.

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Authors: Kreisman, Daniel M.

Institution: University of Chicago

Department: Irving B

Advisor: Jeff Grogger

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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