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Papers

Published Papers

• The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (with M. Greenstone). Fothcoming in the American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics .
  
  
• Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children (with S. Levitt). Forthcoming in American Economic Review.

• Impicit Quotas.The Journal of Legal Studies, v38, January 2009.

• Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (with S. Levitt and J.A. List). American Economic Review 98(2): 370-375, May 2008.

• A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps. Forthcoming in Rationality and Society.
  Online Appendix
  
  
• An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action (with G. Loury and T. Yuret) Forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
  
  
• A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision-Making (with M. Jackson) Forthcoming in Contributions in Theoretical Economics, B.E. Press (formerly titled "Categorial Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making").
  
  
• Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination. Journal of Public Economics, June 2007.
  
  
• A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions (with F. Echenique. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007.
  Matlab programs to calculate the Spectral index and Indices for metropolitan areas are available here. The relevant files follow:
  callspec.m, blockspectral.m, neighbors.m
  
  
• Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007.
  Additional Figures and Regressions
  
  
• The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade (with S. Levitt). American Law and Economic Review, Summer 2006 (special issue on Brown v. Board of Education).
  
  
• Acting White. Education Next, Winter 2006.
  
  
• Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics (with L. Anderson and C. Holt). Handbook on Economics of Discrimination, William Rogers, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA (2006).
  
  
• Affirmative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets. (with G. Loury). Journal of Economic Inequality, December 2005.
  
  
• Affirmative Action and Its Mythology (with G. Loury). The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2005.
  
  
• An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White' (with D. Austen-Smith). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005.
  
  
• Experience-Based Discrimination: Classroom Games (with J. Goeree and C. Holt). The Journal of Economic Education, Spring 2005.
  
  
• Falling Behind (with S. Levitt). Education Next, August 2004.
  
  
• The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (with S. Levitt). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2004. A one page summary in Business Week magazine
  
  
• Understanding The Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School (with S. Levitt). The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2004.
  An abridged version reprinted as Losing Ground at School in Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap.

Forthcoming Papers

• An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics (with S. Levitt), August, 2009; forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
  
  
• An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting Whtie', July, 2009; forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics.

Working Papers

• Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans (with R. Holden) July 16, 2009.
  
• Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Bold Social Experiment in Harlem (with W. Dobbie) November 2009.
  
• The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (with L. Kahn, S. Levitt, and J. Spenkuch) July 2008.
• Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan (with S. Levitt) 2007
  Related figures.
• Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans (with R. Holden) 2007.
  
• Valuing Identity: The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Policies(with G. Loury).
  
• Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact (with P. Heaton, S. Levitt, and K. Murphy).
  Crack Indices reported in the paper for Cities and States
  Crack Indices adjusted for racial composition for Cities and States