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Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Gary S. Becker
Research Area: Economics; Social conditions
Keywords: Values; Interracial Relations
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Education, earnings, and health gaps between whites and blacks significantly narrowed during the forty-year period from the end of World War II until the late 1980s. From then until now, however, black people’s progress relative to whites has essentially stopped. A significant gap remains.