Race and Stratification Working Group
Organized by Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt, Dania V. Francis, and Trevon D. Logan
April 4, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142
Format: 25 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants, 10 minutes for Q&A
Friday, April 4
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
8:45am
Welcoming Remarks
9:00am

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER
Benjamin Lualdi, University of Chicago

Discussants:
Ellis Monk, Harvard University
Victor Ray, University of Iowa
9:50am
Break
10:00am

Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages

Joan J. Martinez, University of California, Berkeley
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER

Discussants:
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
10:50am
Break
11:00am
Egg Timer Session I
10 minutes per paper presentation

Counterfactual Reparations: The Effects of Federal Wealth Transfers to Black Sailors during the Reconstruction Era

John Clegg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Michael Weaver, University of British Colombia

Making the Elite: Class Discrimination at Multinationals

Soumitra Shukla, Harvard Business School and The Burning Glass Institute

Coding Bias: The Role of Racial-Ethnic Identity in 911 Call Dispatching Decisions”

Shinjini Pandey, The Ohio State University
11:30am
Lunch, Longfellow C
1:00pm
Egg Timer Session II
10 minutes per paper presentation

Does Racial Animus Determine Support for Redistributive Policies in the United States? (slides)

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Middlebury College
Jakina Debnam Guzman, Amherst College
Peter Matthews, Middlebury College
Erin L. Wolcott, Middlebury College

Between Arab and White: Syrians and the Naturalization Law (slides)

Donia Sameh Aly Kamel, Paris School of Economics
1:20pm
Break
1:30pm

Disparate Treatment and Outcomes in Emergency Departments: Evidence from Florida

Minu Philip, New York University
Ozde Ozkaya Arasli

Discussants:
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
2:20pm
Break
2:30pm
Egg Timer Session III
10 minutes per paper presentation

Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession

Jeff Chan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Azim Essaji, Wilfrid Laurier University
Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto
2:40pm
Break
2:55pm

Racial Disparities and Bias in Consumer Bankruptcy

Bronson Argyle, Brigham Young University
Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Iverson, Brigham Young University
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussants:
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
3:45pm
Break
4:00pm

The Contribution of College Majors to Gender and Racial Earnings Differences

Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER
Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER
Patrick Massey Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussants:
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER
Natasha Quadlin, University of California, Los Angeles