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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 ...
Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years ...