Get ready for a daily tweets highlighting the work of Black Economists to celebrate #blackhistorymonth2023

1/N Day 1

Featured Scholar: Bocar Ba (@bocar_a) is an assistant professor
@DukeU. He is one of the foremost scholars of policing in the US and has pioneered assembling large datasets on policing in the US that provide insights into racial disparities in policing.

Featured Paper: "Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings."

by: Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, Patrick Bayer and Bocar Ba

Full Paper: https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Day-1

2/N Day 2 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholar:
@EDerenoncourt (@Princeton). Ellora is a path-breaking labor economist and economic historian whose assembles rich data to bring rigorous empirical causal evidence to answer important questions on how labor markets function.

Featured Paper: "Wealth of two nations: The U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020."

Authors:
@EDerenoncourt (@Princeton), @ckim_econ (@UNBonn), @kuhnmo (@UNBonn), @MSchularick
(@sciencespo @UNBonn)

Full Paper: https://https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Day-2

DKKS_2022_Wealth_of_Two_Nations.pdf

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3/N Day 3 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholar: Dr. Jhacova Williams @jhacova
is an Assistant Professor
@AmericanU. Jhacova is an innovative scholar whose work centers southern culture and the impact of our past on the economic and political outcomes today.

Featured Paper: "Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials."

Authors: Jhacova Williams

Full Paper: https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Feature-3

4/N Day 4 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholar: Belinda Archibong @belindaarch
is an Assistant Professor
@BarnardCollege and a prolific development economist whose work focuses on the African continent.

Featured Paper: "Prison labor: The price of prisons and the lasting effects of incarceration"

Authors: @belindaarch
and @nonso2

Full Paper: https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Feature-4

Day 5 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholar: Marcus Casey @MarcDCase
is an Associate Professor
@thisisUIC who does innovative research at the boundary of urban, public and labor economics.