Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality
研究通过1870、1900和1940年黑人与白人收入比的新估计，结合二战后人口普查数据，发现种族收入趋同速度总体缓慢，仅在1940年代和民权运动时期加快，并构建代际不平等传递模型解释这一趋势。
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. “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” —W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk