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Discriminatory penalties at the intersection of race and gender in the United States
Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Tuesday, August 7, 2018Race and gender disparities in wages are a relentless and troubling feature of U.S. labor markets. Economists have investigated the gender wage gap and racial wage gap for more than half a century, yet most empirical research still considers these two types of wage gaps in relative isolation,... Read More »
Ground reality: Mapping urban slums
Forbes India, Tuesday, July 31, 2018All the while, official data has underestimated the number of, and the economic value laden in, slums, suggest two recent studies based on machine learning algorithms and satellite imagery. The reports—jointly prepared by Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, impact investment firm... Read More »
Kirwan Institute Leadership Announcement
Ohio State University, Friday, July 27, 2018Dear Colleagues, I write to announce that Darrick Hamilton, PhD, has accepted our offer to serve as the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, his appointment is effective January 1, 2019. Dr. Hamilton is... Read More »
President Trump Wants a Dovish Fed Chair. He Fired Her
Bloomberg, Thursday, July 26, 2018On What’d You Miss this Week, Joe Wiesenthal, Scarlet Fu and Julie Hyman spoke with Greg Valliere, Horizon Investments Chief Global Strategist, about the feud that he has been warning for months was inevitable: President Trump versus the Federal Reserve. Valliere stressed that for him this is not a... Read More »
Program Helps Durham Students Hone Writing, Research, Presentation Skills
Duke Today, Wednesday, July 25, 2018Were America’s Japanese-American internment camps considered a military necessity or a product of racial bias? Middle and high school students from Durham Public Schools puzzled over the answer last week as they discussed immigration and its history in America during a session at the Hank... Read More »
Making a Federal Jobs Guarantee Work
Bloomberg, Tuesday, July 24, 2018Professor Darity discusses his job guarantee program with Joe Weisenthal on Bloomberg. See full video here.
With drones and satellites, India gets to know its slums
Reuters, Tuesday, July 24, 2018About a third of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements, according to United Nations data. These settlements may account for 30 percent to 60 percent of housing in cities, yet they are generally undercounted, resulting in a lack of essential services, which can... Read More »
Are Indian slums an economic asset hiding in plain sight?
Your Story, Tuesday, July 24, 2018India is home to over 105 million slum dwellers, people who live in informal settlements, including those who do not have recognised rights to their land and property. The popular consensus and imagery that is consistent with slums is that of tightly-packed shanty dwellings, hungry and... Read More »
Very little upward mobility in slums: study
The Hindu, Monday, July 23, 2018No upward mobility Even among those in notified slums, moving up the social ladder is a rarity. The survey reveals that households who have been in these slums for more than four generations earn just ₹8,000 per month, which is marginally more than a first-generation migrant to the city whose... Read More »
Study reveals 2,000 slums in Bengaluru, govt lists only 597
The Times of India, Monday, July 23, 2018BENGALURU: Using satellite imagery and machine learning, a multi-agency study on the state of slums in Bengaluru has uncovered startling discrepancies in official ata: The city has over 2,000 slums, and the government recognizes only 597. Interestingly, only Gulbarga Colony... Read More »