NEA Presidential Address: Identity, Markets and Persistent Racial Inequality

NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality

Negational racial identity and presidential voting preferences

Previous research suggests that narrow identification with one’s own racial group impedes coalition building among minorities. Consistent with this research, the 2008 Democratic primary was marked by racial differences in voting preferences: Black voters overwhelmingly preferred Barack Obama, a Black candidate, and Latinos and Asians largely favored Hillary Clinton, a White candidate. We invest...

Persistent Racial Wage Inequality

This paper attempts to understand the forces that have lead to persistent racial wage inequality by developing a dynamic model of statistical discrimination that accounts for the transmission of earnings across generations. The parameters of this model are then estimated using data from the 1970 and 1990 U.S. Census. The results indicate that racial disparities in the quality of information tha...

Presidential Address: John Parkes

John Parkes was born in Marton, went to school in New Plymouth, and completed his BSc and MSc degrees at Massey University. He joined the Forest Research Institute at Ilam as a scientist in 1975 and transferred to Landcare Research when the Crown Research Institutes were formed in 1992. John has worked on the ecology of many mammals (hedgehogs, possums, swamp wallabies, hares, red deer, wapiti,...

Wordsworth, Presidential Address

to the Lake District and who, from the first flush of revolutionary fervour came to a dignified old age in Rydal, Westmorland as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, a Tory supporter, opponent of reform and adherent to the established church. There are several reasons for choosing this subject. I have heard some twenty Presidential Addresses to this Society, from Mr. Robert Cooke's 'Ship-Shape and B...