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Race and Home Ownership in Twentieth Century America: The Role of Sample Composition
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper examine long-run trends in racial differences in home ownership rate and in the value of owner-occupied housing. In contrast to our previous work, we include female-headed households in the analysis. This extension ...
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. ...
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 ...