Race and Stratification Working Group

Trevon D. Logan, William Darity, Jevay Grooms, and Rodney J. Andrews, Organizers

March 31, 2023

Format: Authors have 25 minutes to present their papers, discussion will be 15 minutes, and 10 minutes for Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

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
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)
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
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
1:15 pm
Egg-Timer Session I (10 minute presentations)

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

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

The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada (slides)
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

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

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

Economic Inequality and Stratification after a Natural Disaster
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Role Models Revisited: HBCUs, Same-Race Teacher Effects, and Black Student Achievement
Discussant: Michael Gottfried, University of Pennsylvania
Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University
4:35 pm
Wrap up and Adjourn