The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

We show that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), from its inception in the 1930s, did
not insure mortgages in low income urban neighborhoods where the vast majority of urban …

This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on
Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap | New England Journal of
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Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in
public goods provision, growing regional inequality, and exploding housing costs in …

We document the existence of a racial gap in realized housing returns that is an order of
magnitude larger than disparities arising from housing costs alone, and is driven almost …

During the late 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) created a series of
maps designed to summarize spatial variation in the riskiness of mortgage lending in …

Local pollution exposures have a disproportionate impact on minority households, but the
root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major …

The Industrial Removal Office funded 39,000 Jewish households to leave enclave
neighborhoods in New York City from 1900 to 1922. Compared to neighbors with the same …