This project is a collection on seminars that feature research on the causal impact of race and identity on economic, political, and social well-being. Each one-hour seminar includes a 35-minute presentation by the author followed by 25 minutes for questions and discussion.Â
Moderated by Andreas Ferrara, Allison Shertzer, and Randy Walsh.
Organized by Andreas Ferrara, Allison Shertzer, Randy Walsh, and Ilia Murtazashvili.
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the US Economy, November 18, 2020
Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic, November 6, 2020
A New Institutional History of Allotment: Evidence from the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1904-1934, November 4, 2020
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe, October 28, 2020
Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights, October 21, 2020
Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago, October 14, 2020
Bocar Ba from the University of California, Irvine presents research showing that lowering the cost of filing complaints against police increases reporting, alters oversight outcomes, and reveals unequal burdens on non-white communities
Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling, October 7, 2020
Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling by Samuel Bazzi
Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare (with Brian Beach), September 30, 2020
As part of CGM's Virtual Seminar Series on the Economics of Race and Identity, Tate Twinam (College of William & Mary) presented Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare and engaged in audience Q&A.
The Incubated Revolution: Education, Cohort Effects, and the Linguistic Wage Gap in Quebec, 1970 to 2000, September 23, 2020
Professor Vincent Geloso (King's University College) illustrates the potentially dramatic equalizing effects of a social policy law. He presents new research on how education laws contributed to the collapse of the linguistic wage gap in Quebec from 1970 to 2000.
Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment, September 16, 2020
Professor Christian Dippel (UCLA) shows how land transfer limits harmed agricultural and economic development on Indian allotments, arguing for greater tribal choice in land rights.