SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS

James Heckman and Petra Todd

The Journal of Economic History, 2001, vol. 61, issue 2, 517-517

Abstract: This paper presents a detailed accounting of the sources of African-American economic progress in the labor market over the twentieth century. We examine the received literature and demonstrate the sensitivity of conclusions stated in it to choices of samples used to measure wages and to specifications of earnings functions. We present a quantitative assessment of the contributions of migration, schooling choices, schooling quality, and social activism to both absolute levels and relative levels of African-American earnings.

Date: 2001
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