Race and Stratification Working Group
Organized by Trevon D. Logan, William Darity, Jevay Grooms, and Rodney J. Andrews
March 31, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and Zoom
Format: Authors have 25 minutes to present their papers, discussion will be 15 minutes, and 10 minutes for Q&A
Friday, March 31
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am
Welcome and Remarks
9:00 am

Caste-based and Racial Wealth Inequality in India and the United States

Ishan Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Discussants:
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them (slides)

Matteo F. Ferroni, University of Missouri
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Discussants:
Michael Kraus, Yale University
Candis Watts Smith, Duke University
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Unequal Gradients: Sex, Skin Tone, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Luis A. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Roberto Vélez-Grajales, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias
Gastón Yalonetzky, Leeds University

Discussants:
Art Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Chantal Smith, Washington and Lee University
11:50 am
Break
12:00 noon
Special Pedagogical Lunch Presentation
Introduction in meeting room and continues off-line over lunch

Teaching Discrimination in Introductory Economics: An Approach Incorporating Stratification Economics

Jorgen M. Harris, Occidental College
Mary Lopez, Occidental College
1:15 pm
Egg-Timer Session I (10 minute presentations)

Complementary Investments Over the Life Course and the Black-White Earnings Gap (slides)

Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Warwick
Damian Clarke, Universidad de Chile
Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Estimating Disenfranchisement in U.S. Elections, 1870-1970

Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California
Thomas R. Gray, University of Texas at Dallas

The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada (slides)

Donn. L. Feir, University of Victoria and NBER
Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto
Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

A Simple Model of Group Conflict, Inequality and Stratification (slides)

Daniele Tavani, Colorado State University
Brendan Brundage, Morehouse College

Discussants:
Pablo Beramendi, Duke University
Patrick L. Mason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Egg-Timer Session II (10 minute presentations)

Racial Disparities in the Tax Treatment of Marriage (slides)

Janet Holtzblatt, The Urban Institute
Swati Joshi, The Brookings Institution
Nora R. Cahill, Harvard University
William Gale, The Brookings Institution

Not so Black and White: Uncovering Racial Bias from Systematically Misreported Trooper Reports

Elizabeth Luh, University of Michigan

Economic Inequality and Stratification after a Natural Disaster

Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Role Models Revisited: HBCUs, Same-Race Teacher Effects, and Black Student Achievement

Lavar C. Edmonds, Stanford University

Discussant:
Michael Gottfried, University of Pennsylvania
Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University
4:35 pm
Wrap up and Adjourn