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Princeton Community
November 28, 2022
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
Peter Kuhn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Kuhn is a visiting Professor of Economics at Princeton University, in the Industrial Relations Section. Peter Kuhn is a Labor and Personnel Economist with recent research interests in discrimination, turnover costs, China's labor markets, and the role of the internet as a labor market matchmaker.
Peter Kuhn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Industrial Relations Seminar
Princeton Community
October 24, 2022
1:20 pm - 2:35 am
1:20 pm - 2:35 am
"The Geography of Black Economic Progress After Slavery"
Abstract
This paper studies the long-run impact of racially oppressive institutions---from slavery to Jim Crow---on Black American families until today. To do so, we link decades of U.S. census and administrative records and develop new methods to measure how long a family's ancestors were enslaved and how intensively they experienced Jim Crow after slavery. We find that a family's long-run economic progress critically depends on the location in which they were freed. Black families who were freed in states with more intensive Jim Crow institutions made less economic progress after slavery. In a border discontinuity design, we show that families freed just inside of states with a strong Jim Crow regime fared far worse than those freed just outside of those states. These gaps did not exist before Jim Crow and did not arise for white Americans. We also provide evidence that limiting Black children's access to education was a key channel.
Lukas Althoff, Princeton University
Industrial Relations Seminar
Princeton Community
September 12, 2022
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley
Enrico Moretti is the Michael R. Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Moretti’s research covers the fields of labor economics and urban economics.
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Relations Seminar
Princeton Community
April 25, 2022
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
1:20 pm - 2:35 pm
"Waves of Empowerment: Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement" - Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto (Joint with Political Economy)
Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto
Industrial Relations Seminar, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance Event
