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Title: Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000590

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Abstract: New benchmark estimates of Black-White income ratios for 1870, 1900, and 1940 are combined with standard post-World War census data. The resulting time series reveals that the pace of racial income convergence has generally been steady but slow, quickening only during the 1940s and the modern Civil Rights era. I explore the interpretation of the time series with a model of intergenerational transmission of inequality in which racial differences in causal factors that determine income are very large just after the Civil War and which erode slowly across subsequent generations.

Url: http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022050716000590

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Authors: Margo, Robert A.

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Economic History

Issue: 02

Volume: 76

Pages: 301-341

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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