The Political Economy and Impact of Race-Specific Policy, 1940-1970

政治经济学和特定种族政策的影响，1940-1970

• 批准号: 0095943
• 负责人: William Collins
• 金额: $ 13.53万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0095943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Economy; Impact; Race; Specific

This project widens the scope of inquiry into twentieth century African-American economic progress by examining the political economy that underpinned the adoption of a variety of race-related policies and then by measuring the impact of those policies. The investigation focuses on the 1940 to 1970 period when anti-discrimination legislation pertaining to labor and housing markets was debated and enacted at municipal, state, and federal levels of government. To this point in time, the economics literature has focused primarily on assessing the impact of the federal legislation. Consequently, economists' understanding of the emergence of race-specific policies is empirically weak; the effects of sub-federal legislation remain under-explored; and the connections between African-American mobility, political participation, and economic status remain dimly lit. Thus, economists and policymakers have an incomplete picture of how and how much government policy has contributed to the economic status of African-Americans. The project begins by exploring empirically the economic, political, and social forces that combined to promote anti-discrimination policies. This is accomplished by exploiting variation across states and cities in the timing of policy adoption, by assembling detailed studies of the internal political economy of particular states, and by identifying potential interactions across localities and across layers of government (municipal, state, and federal). The project then integrates consideration of the policies' origins with evaluations of the policies' impacts on labor and housing markets. Again, variation across locations in the timing of policy change provides a useful basis for the measurement of policy impact. Ultimately, the project seeks to achieve a more complete and more coherent assessment of the connections between government policy and African-American economic progress in the twentieth century.

该项目扩大了对二十世纪世纪非洲裔美国人经济进步的调查范围，方法是审查支持采取各种种族相关政策的政治经济，然后衡量这些政策的影响。 调查的重点是1940年至1970年期间，有关劳动力和住房市场的反歧视立法进行了辩论，并在市，州和联邦各级政府颁布。 到目前为止，经济学文献主要集中在评估联邦立法的影响上。 因此，经济学家对种族政策的理解在经验上是薄弱的;联邦以下立法的影响仍然没有得到充分的探索;非洲裔美国人的流动性，政治参与和经济地位之间的联系仍然模糊不清。该项目首先从经验上探索经济，政治和社会力量相结合，以促进反歧视政策。 这是通过利用各州和各城市在政策采纳时间上的差异，通过收集对特定州内部政治经济的详细研究，以及通过确定各地和各级政府（市、州和联邦）之间的潜在互动来实现的。 然后，该项目将政策起源的考虑与政策对劳动力和住房市场影响的评估结合起来。 此外，各地点在政策变化的时间上的差异为衡量政策影响提供了一个有用的基础。 最后，该项目力求对政府政策与二十世纪非裔美国人经济进步之间的联系进行更全面、更连贯的评估。