The Promised Land? The Great Migration and Economic Progress of African Americans

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• 批准号: 7899503
• 负责人: Lowell Taylor
• 金额: $ 17.83万
• 依托单位: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-10 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7899503
• 关键词: African American; Assimilations; Attention; Back; Birth; Censuses; Child; Civil Rights; Communities; Consumption; Data; Data Set; Data Sources; Death Certificates; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Development; Dimensions; Economics; Empirical Research; Epidemiology; Family; Freedom; Generations; Goals; Hand; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Health care facility; Heart; Housing; Immigration; Income; Individual; Inequality; Investigation; Journals; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Literature; Location; Longevity; Longitudinal Studies; Marketing; Measures; Medicare; Movement; Nature; Nomads; Outcome; Paper; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Policies; Policy Research; Portraits; Poverty; Price; Process; Public Policy; Race; Recording of previous events; Records; Relative (related person); Research; Research Activity; Resources; Respondent; Retirement; Role; Scientist; Shapes; Social Policies; Social Sciences; Social Security; Social Welfare; Societies; Specific qualifier value; Students; Surveys; United States; Ursidae Family; Wages; Woman; Work; Youth; cohort; graduate student; grandchild; health economics; human capital; improved; intergenerational; men; migration; mortality; older men; programs; public health relevance; response; social; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Two phenomena lie at the heart of 20th century African American social history: (1) the "black- white economic convergence" that accompanied the decline in discriminatory barriers and narrowing of the black-white gap in human capital, and (2) the "great migration"-the movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. In this project we intend to assemble a detailed historical/statistical portrait of these phenomena, and investigate the relationships between them. Our broad purpose is to increase scientific understanding of racial inequality, in terms of both economic and health-related outcomes. Ultimately, we intend that this research be useful in formulating policies that reducing racial disparity. In pursuing this program we take several steps: First, we will work with appropriate agencies to build several new longitudinal data sources for the purpose of studying racial inequality in earnings, consumption, health (as measured along many dimensions) and mortality. We will use these new data resources in our own research, and they will be made available to the broader research community for further investigations. Second, using our newly developed data resources, along with other existing data, we intend to explore the interplay between migration and black-white economic inequality, reassessing current views about black-white economic convergence over the past 70 years. In conducting this research, we will pay far more attention than has previously been possible to the location-specific nature of racial disparities. Third, we will conduct a thorough analysis of the well-being of blacks relative to whites using health outcomes and mortality, analyzing in particular the role of migration for the health of African Americans. Fourth, we plan to analyze available evidence about the impact of black migration from the South not only on the well-being of migrants themselves, but also on the well-being of their children and grandchildren. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: In the United States racial inequality is an essential societal issue. It s important that scientists build clear evidence about racial disparities, and their causes and consequences, if progress is to be made in forming appropriate policy responses. These serious concerns motivate our research program-an empirical analysis of black-white inequality in economic- and health-related outcomes in the U.S. over the past century.

描述(申请人提供)：20世纪非裔美国人社会史的两个核心现象：(1)随着歧视性障碍的减少和人力资本中黑人-白人差距的缩小而出现的“黑人-白人经济融合”，以及(2)“大迁徙”--数百万非裔美国人从南方向北方、中西部和西部的迁移。在这个项目中，我们打算对这些现象进行详细的历史/统计描述，并调查它们之间的关系。我们的广泛目的是增加对种族不平等的科学理解，无论是在经济上还是在与健康相关的结果方面。最终，我们希望这项研究有助于制定缩小种族差距的政策。在执行这一计划时，我们采取了几个步骤：首先，我们将与适当的机构合作，建立几个新的纵向数据源，以研究收入、消费、健康(从多个维度衡量)和死亡率方面的种族不平等。我们将在自己的研究中使用这些新的数据资源，并将它们提供给更广泛的研究社区进行进一步研究。其次，利用我们新开发的数据资源，以及其他现有数据，我们打算探索移民和黑人-白人经济不平等之间的相互作用，重新评估过去70年来关于黑人-白人经济融合的当前观点。在进行这项研究时，我们将比以往更多地关注种族差异的特定地点性质。第三，我们将使用健康结果和死亡率对黑人相对于白人的福祉进行彻底分析，特别是分析移民对非裔美国人健康的作用。第四，我们计划分析现有证据，证明来自南方的黑人移民不仅对移民本身，而且对他们的子孙后代的福祉产生了影响。 与公共健康相关：在美国，种族不平等是一个基本的社会问题。如果要在形成适当的政策回应方面取得进展，重要的是S，如果要在形成适当的政策回应方面取得进展，科学家们必须建立关于种族差距及其原因和后果的明确证据。这些严重的担忧推动了我们的研究计划--对过去一个世纪美国经济和健康相关结果中的黑人和白人不平等进行实证分析。