Peter Q. Blair

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@Harvard faculty, @nberpubs
Faculty Research Associate, Co-director @Harvard Project on Workforce, PI of the BE-Lab, Bahamas born. WSJ op-ed: http://bit.ly/pblairWSJ

9/N Day 9 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholars: Nina Banks (@Nina_EBanks Associate Prof
@BucknellU), Anna Gifty (@itsafronomics PhD student
@Harvard) and Fanta Traore ( @TheFantaTraore graduate student @Yale) who highlight the legacy of 1st Black econ PhD Sadie Alexander .

8/N Day 8 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholars: William Darity Jr (@SandyDarity @DukeU) and Kristen Mullen (@IrstenKMullen) who are authors of the seminal book "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century" https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Feature-8.

From Here to Equality, Second Edition | William A. Darity Jr. | University of North Carolina Press

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial ...

University of North Carolina Press

Featured Paper: "Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending"

Authors:
@KiraboJackson @ProfRucker

Full Paper: https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Feature-7

7/N Day 7 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholars: Rucker Johnson (@ProfRucker @UCBerkeley
) and Kirabo Jackson (@KiraboJackson @NorthwesternU) who are giants in the profession! Rucker and Bo have written seminal papers on the critical role of school funding on student outcomes.

6/N Day 6 #BlackHistoryMonth

Featured Scholars: Dania Francis @DaniaFrancis
(@UMassBoston) Damon Jones @nomadj1s (@UChicago) and Bradley Hardy @bl_hardy (@Georgetown)

Featured Paper: "The evolution of charter school quality"

Authors: @MarcDCase, Patrick Baude, @EricHanushek, Gregory R Phelan, and Steven G Rivkin

Full Paper: https://tinyurl.com/BHM-Feature-5

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.

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

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.