US Inequality Data
White-to-Black per capita wealth ratios, 1860-2020
Wealth of two nations: The U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020
Working paper, May 2022
Online appendix, May 2022
Intergenerational mobility curves by race and region, 2015
Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration
Working paper, August 2021
Online appendix, August 2021
Presentation slides, August 2021
List of tables and figures, August 2021
Impact of the Great Migration on police spending from 1920-2012. Figure from Derenoncourt (2021) "Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration."
Public Finance and Neighborhoods Database, 1920-2015
A database of historical and contemporary characteristics of urban, non-southern commuting zones in the US. Topics include
Economic characteristics
Neighborhood and social characteristics
Political and cultural characteristics
Incarceration and crime
Schools
Public finance
Population characteristics
Download here. Full documentation coming soon.
Racial inequality in the labor market, 1950-2017
Working paper, August 2020
Online appendix, August 2020
Presentation slides, August 2020
List of tables and figures, August 2020
Data
Minimum Wage database (1950-1980): minimum wages by state, industry, month, year for men (.xlsx), and women (.xlsx)
Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: raw data 1960s (.html) and 1970-1979 (.html)
Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: digitized data for laundries, hotels, restaurants & nursing homes (.dta), schools (.dta), and hospitals (.dta) by gender, area, region & occupation, and average wages data for both industries covered in 1938 and 1967 (.dta)
Complete raw data: March CPS, U.S. decennial censuses, BLS industry wage reports, CPI-U-RS series, minimum wage databases, etc. (.html)
Replication archive:
Complete data, programs, tables, figures & tex files: Working Paper, main and appendix tables and figures, raw and output data & programs (.html)