Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1177/00346446221093051
S. Diop, S. Asongu, Vanessa S. Tchamyou
This paper measures the macroeconomic influence of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the nexus. We find that political crisis, protests and uprisings have a significant and negative nexus with economic growth while the nexus is positive with investment and price level. For economic growth, the deviation of the actual series from the counterfactual is negative, instantaneous, persistent and highly significant; indicating non-negligible costs of the shock. Indeed, dependence on natural resources amplifies the negative influence of political crisis, protests and uprisings on GDP. Finally, the more the treated country depends on natural resources, the more it becomes resilient to the investment losses caused by political crisis.
{"title":"The Macroeconomic Influence of Recent Political Conflicts in Africa: Generalized Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence","authors":"S. Diop, S. Asongu, Vanessa S. Tchamyou","doi":"10.1177/00346446221093051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446221093051","url":null,"abstract":"This paper measures the macroeconomic influence of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the nexus. We find that political crisis, protests and uprisings have a significant and negative nexus with economic growth while the nexus is positive with investment and price level. For economic growth, the deviation of the actual series from the counterfactual is negative, instantaneous, persistent and highly significant; indicating non-negligible costs of the shock. Indeed, dependence on natural resources amplifies the negative influence of political crisis, protests and uprisings on GDP. Finally, the more the treated country depends on natural resources, the more it becomes resilient to the investment losses caused by political crisis.","PeriodicalId":35867,"journal":{"name":"Review of Black Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43635934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/00346446211065174
Frank Curry, Gary Dymski, Tanita J Lewis, Hanna K Szymborska
This special issue aims to use historical examples to gain insight into the socio-economic impact of, and possibilities of recovery from, the Covid-19 pandemic for Black communities. We approach this question by comparing the impact of the pandemic on Black Britons in the United Kingdom with that of the 2008 subprime crisis on Black Americans. We find that, in both cases, a pattern of racially asymmetric losses and race-neutral policy responses that have systematically ignored the disparate losses borne by Black and racial/ethnic minority communities. Both patterns are manifestations of these countries' institutional racism. Relying on insights from stratification economics and using the concept of "racial formation" introduced by Harold Baron in 1985, we show how these nations' historical relationships to slavery and imperialism have led to different structures of racial control. Our review of U.K. government policy includes a critique of the March 2021 report of the U.K. Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1177/00346446221076868
B. Soebbing, P. Wicker, N. Watanabe
The present study seeks to add to the growing literature related to off-field actions impacting labor economic issues. It examines how off-field incidents with law enforcement and violations of league policies governing performance enhancing drugs impact career earnings for players. Furthermore, we seek to understand how career earnings are impacted for visible minorities. Ordinary least squares and quantile regression estimations of career earnings for over 3,500 National Football League players show generally these actions do not impact career earnings. If there are significant impacts, then the impacts generally tend to be positive, but not for racial minority players.
{"title":"NFL Player Career Earnings and Off-Field Behavior","authors":"B. Soebbing, P. Wicker, N. Watanabe","doi":"10.1177/00346446221076868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446221076868","url":null,"abstract":"The present study seeks to add to the growing literature related to off-field actions impacting labor economic issues. It examines how off-field incidents with law enforcement and violations of league policies governing performance enhancing drugs impact career earnings for players. Furthermore, we seek to understand how career earnings are impacted for visible minorities. Ordinary least squares and quantile regression estimations of career earnings for over 3,500 National Football League players show generally these actions do not impact career earnings. If there are significant impacts, then the impacts generally tend to be positive, but not for racial minority players.","PeriodicalId":35867,"journal":{"name":"Review of Black Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79341097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1177/00346446211068164
Karoliina Kantola
For decades, feminist scholars and activists have called for gender equality across the world, and at the same time, black people have protested open and hidden racism in the society. Recent local and global movements and social media campaigns prove that these issues have not expired, on the contrary, discrimination based on gender and race exists, and in some parts of the world, it has even worsened. As important as those movements are, they are often looked from a narrow perspective. Gender rights are discussed from white women’s point of view, and racism is typically linked to black men. Developed by Afro-American female scholars, black feminism raises questions on the marginalised groups within marginalities. Some of the first publications on the topic were already written more than four decades ago, but black feminism has still stayed, ironically enough, in marginality. This article presents the main findings and arguments of two books that use black feminist theories in different contexts and fields of science. The more recently published of these books is To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (2019). Edited by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande, the edited collection combines essays on black women’s actions and everyday struggles in different European countries. The second one is Caroline Shenaz Hossein’s Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas (2016). Discussing alternative finance in the African diaspora in the Caribbean, the book has already received some welldeserved attention in academia. Despite the differences in the form and the publication years, the books are comparable and contain some of the brilliant contributions to black feminist literature. They Book Review
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1177/00346446221078162
N. Banks
“My work is not traditional. I like it that way. If people tell me to turn my ends under, I’ll leave them raggedy. If they tell me to make my stitches small and tight, I’ll leave them loose. Sometimes you can trip over my stitches they’re so big. You can always recognize the traditional quilters who come by and see my quilts. They sort of cringe. They fold their hands in front of them as if to protect themselves from the cold. When they come up to my work they think to themselves, “God, what has happened here – all these big crooked stitches.” I appreciate these quilters. I admire their craft. But that’s not my kind of work. I would like them to appreciate what I’m doing. They are quilters. But I am an artist. And I tell stories.”
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1177/00346446221074693
S. Myers
Samuel Myers was an honors graduate of Frederick Douglas High School, once known as the Colored High and Training School, in Baltimore, Maryland. The school was the alma mater of at least two other distinguished African American economists – John Henry Dean (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1938) and Phyllis Wallace (Ph.D. Yale University 1948). The principal at the time, Dr. Mason Hawkins, had studied economics at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Myers matriculated at Morgan College (later known as Morgan State University) in 1936, intending to major in chemistry. However, during his freshman year at Morgan, Myers joined his father on a semester-long voyage to Calcutta, working as a mess boy on a steamer ship. Struck by the abject poverty he observed among the Dalits of Calcutta, he eventually decided to devote his life to creating better public policies to eradicate economic inequalities. Since Morgan did not have an economics department then, Myers majored instead in social science. His passion for economic analysis, though, propelled him to apply to the graduate program in economics at Boston University, where many other Morgan graduates and faculty had trained. At Boston University, Myers studied under the economics department chair, Charles Phillips Huse, a 1907 graduate of Harvard’s Ph.D. program in economics and a specialist in consumer cooperatives. His master’s thesis, Consumer’s Cooperation: A Plan for the Negro (Myers, 1942), argued for the need for African Americans to embrace a cooperative system in opposition to market capitalism that
{"title":"In Memoriam: Samuel L. Myers (1919–2021)","authors":"S. Myers","doi":"10.1177/00346446221074693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446221074693","url":null,"abstract":"Samuel Myers was an honors graduate of Frederick Douglas High School, once known as the Colored High and Training School, in Baltimore, Maryland. The school was the alma mater of at least two other distinguished African American economists – John Henry Dean (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1938) and Phyllis Wallace (Ph.D. Yale University 1948). The principal at the time, Dr. Mason Hawkins, had studied economics at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Myers matriculated at Morgan College (later known as Morgan State University) in 1936, intending to major in chemistry. However, during his freshman year at Morgan, Myers joined his father on a semester-long voyage to Calcutta, working as a mess boy on a steamer ship. Struck by the abject poverty he observed among the Dalits of Calcutta, he eventually decided to devote his life to creating better public policies to eradicate economic inequalities. Since Morgan did not have an economics department then, Myers majored instead in social science. His passion for economic analysis, though, propelled him to apply to the graduate program in economics at Boston University, where many other Morgan graduates and faculty had trained. At Boston University, Myers studied under the economics department chair, Charles Phillips Huse, a 1907 graduate of Harvard’s Ph.D. program in economics and a specialist in consumer cooperatives. His master’s thesis, Consumer’s Cooperation: A Plan for the Negro (Myers, 1942), argued for the need for African Americans to embrace a cooperative system in opposition to market capitalism that","PeriodicalId":35867,"journal":{"name":"Review of Black Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87449604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1177/00346446221076867
Crystal R. Hudson, John H. Young
As accumulating wealth is a vital component of financial well-being, this paper aims to gain a better understanding of why African Americans do not accumulate wealth at the same rate as other racial groups. Researchers utilize data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to estimate the parameters of logistic regression specifications to examine the factors that determine wealth accumulation for African Americans. Researchers found that African Americans were less likely to have low wealth if they owned their own homes and more likely to have low wealth if they did not save. Saving and homeownership had more of an impact on wealth accumulation for African Americans than for White Americans. Furthermore, African Americans who did not invest in the stock market were more likely to have low wealth, as investing also had more of an effect on wealth accumulation for White Americans than for African Americans.
{"title":"Wealth: Factors That Effect African American Wealth","authors":"Crystal R. Hudson, John H. Young","doi":"10.1177/00346446221076867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446221076867","url":null,"abstract":"As accumulating wealth is a vital component of financial well-being, this paper aims to gain a better understanding of why African Americans do not accumulate wealth at the same rate as other racial groups. Researchers utilize data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to estimate the parameters of logistic regression specifications to examine the factors that determine wealth accumulation for African Americans. Researchers found that African Americans were less likely to have low wealth if they owned their own homes and more likely to have low wealth if they did not save. Saving and homeownership had more of an impact on wealth accumulation for African Americans than for White Americans. Furthermore, African Americans who did not invest in the stock market were more likely to have low wealth, as investing also had more of an effect on wealth accumulation for White Americans than for African Americans.","PeriodicalId":35867,"journal":{"name":"Review of Black Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84887659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00346446221076866
J. Pitts, B. Evans, John D. Johnson
A great deal of media attention has been given to the scarcity of black head-coaches in the NFL. Using data on coordinators for every NFL season since the introduction of the Rooney Rule in 2003, the authors estimated several probit regressions to examine how various factors, including race, were correlated with a coordinator's probability of becoming a head coach. There was evidence that, all else equal, black coordinators who played in the NFL have been less likely to be promoted than similar non-black coordinators. Furthermore, there was evidence that black coordinators were significantly less likely to be promoted between 2018 and 2020. The analysis also suggested that a lack of black coordinators who played quarterback or tight-end in college as well as a lack of black coordinators with experience coaching the tight-end and wide-receiver positions in the NFL have contributed to the low number of black head-coaches. The authors also examine the specific case of Eric Bieniemy by using the empirical model to compare Bieniemy's probability of promotion with those of other relevant coaches. This analysis offers several potential explanations as to why Bieniemy has yet to receive a head-coaching opportunity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-17DOI: 10.1177/00346446211068163
Carycruz Bueno, J. Apperson
As the evidence linking test scores to long-run student outcomes has grown, standardized assessments have become a widely used management tool in education including addressing the racial education gap. One of the concerns with the use of standards tests is the perverse incentive for teachers to alter test scores. The consequences for educators found cheating can be substantial, although little is known about how students are impacted by cheating. Using an 11-year panel of individual-level data on students and teachers from a predominantly Black urban school district where widespread test-score manipulation occurred, we investigated the impact of teacher cheating on subsequent student test scores. To access the impact, we used school-grade and classroom fixed effects as well as measure potential omitted variable bias (OVB). We found that for each additional wrong-to-right altered test question it is associated with a reduced future achievement of between 0.003 and 0.014 standard deviations depending on the specification. Although the evidence from OVB analysis does not suggest that test-score manipulation itself harmed or benefited students. Our evidence also contributes to a growing literature on the importance of sensitivity tests for OVB. We show how failure to conduct such tests could lead to erroneous findings.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-07DOI: 10.1177/00346446211065177
K. Rotthoff
There is a major difference in the drug arrest rate and incarceration rates between Black and White individuals. However, the drug use rate across the two groups is similar (and has been over time). This study estimates the lost productivity over time of people arrested on drug charges because they are Black. Ceteris Paribus, if those using the drugs were White, instead of Black, at the point of arrest and incarceration, what would have been their additional productivity levels over their lives? In this study I estimate this lost productivity to be $53 billion to $220 billion from 1980–2018 (in 2019-dollars), suggesting that the Lucas wedge is substantial for racial drug arrests.
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