Economics of Race and Stratification
Organized by Francisca M. Antman, Robynn J.A. Cox, Bocar A. Ba, and Trevon D. Logan
March 27, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Longer presentations: 25 minutes author, 15 minute discussant, 10 minutes open discussion
Friday, March 27
8:30am
Breakfast
8:45am
Welcoming Remarks
9:00am

Dynamic Racial Wealth Inequality Accounting, 1860 – 2020

Illenin O. Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Samuel L. Myers Jr, University of Minnesota
William Darity, Duke University
Teegawende H. Zeida, Brock University

Discussant:
Marcus D. Casey, University of Illinois Chicago
9:50am
Break
10:00am

Who Struggles After Buying? Disparities in New-Homeowner Financial Distress

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, University of California, San Diego
Sanket A. Korgaonkar, University of Virginia
10:10am

The “Good” Starbucks: Consumer Redlining in Large American Chain Stores

Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, University of California, Davis
10:20am
Break
10:30am

The Color Of Ideas: Race, Networks, And The Diffusion Of Knowledge

Marlène Koffi, University of Toronto and NBER
Roland Pongou, University of Ottawa
Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
11:20am
Break
11:30am

World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
Sahil Chinoy, Harvard University
11:40am

The Murder of George Floyd and the Behavior of the Minneapolis Police Department

Isabel Pastoor, University of Minnesota
11:50am

What's in a Mane: Appearance Norms and Racialized Hair Bias

Tarikua Erda, New York University
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Columbia University
12:00
Lunch
1:30pm

Engines of Uplift: The Local Returns of HBCUs for Black Americans in the South, 1870–1940

Jorge De la Roca, University of Southern California
Yi-Ju Hung, National Chung Cheng University

Discussant:
Omari Swinton, Howard University
2:20pm
Break
2:30pm

Immigration Enforcement and Hispanic Identity

Hussain Hadah, Tulane University
Augustine Denteh, Davidson College
2:40pm
Break
3:00pm

Affirmative Action and Racial Integration

Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER
Gerald D. Jaynes, Yale University

Discussant:
Peter Hinrichs, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
3:50pm
Break
4:00pm

Race-Blind Policy and Racial Inequality: Long-Run Evidence from World War II

Lukas Althoff, Stanford University
Christiane Szerman, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
4:50pm
Adjourn