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The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-05)
In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. ...
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes ...
The Political Economy of State Fair-Housing Laws Prior to 1968
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
The confluence of the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement propelled the drive for "fair-housing" legislation which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the passage ...
The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
Between 1964 and 1971, hundreds of riots erupted in American cities, resulting in large numbers of injuries, deaths, and arrests, as well as in considerable property damage that was concentrated in predominantly black ...
The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s using household-level and census-tract data. State-level "fair-housing" laws attempted to bar discrimination on the basis ...
The Political Economy of Race and the Adoption of Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1964
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper explores the political economy of anti-discrimination legislation during the ascendancy of the Civil Rights Movement. It traces the diffusion of state-level fair employment legislation and evaluates the relative ...
The Economic Effects of Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
The Housing Act of 1949 established a federally subsidized program that helped cities clear areas of existing buildings for redevelopment, rehabilitate deteriorating structures, complete comprehensive city plans, and enforce ...
A Neighborhood-Level View of Riots, Property Values, and Population Loss: Cleveland 1950-1980
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
We undertake a case study of riots in the context of Cleveland's economic decline between 1950 and 1980. Our empirical perspective emphasizes differential changes in property values and population levels across census ...
Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large ...
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1960
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non-southern blacks (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level "fair employment" laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. ...