The Great Migration: Charter School Satisfaction Among African American Parents

The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity

We present a comprehensive assessment of genomic diversity in the African-American population by studying three genotyped cohorts comprising 3,726 African-Americans from across the United States that provide a representative description of the population across all US states and socioeconomic status. An estimated 82.1% of ancestors to African-Americans lived in Africa prior to the advent of tra...

Hardiness Scripts: High-achieving African American Boys in a Chicago Charter School Navigating Community Violence and School

Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to ...

School Quality, Child Wellbeing and Parents’ Satisfaction

Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices. However, anecdotal evidence and common sense suggest that school quality is not one-dimensional and that parents and children are concerned about other school factors related to pupil wellbeing. In ...

Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, 371 Holman Hall, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, USA Abstract During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has la...

The New Negro era and the Great African American Transformation.