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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870-1940
Ran Abramitzky, Jacob Conway, Roy Mill +1
We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Co…
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Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers
Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Nicolas Longuet-Marx
What role do journalists play in determining the political slant of the news they produce? We develop and estimate a model where journalists and newspaper outlets contract over bot…
econ.GN2026
Consuming Values
Jacob Conway, Levi Boxell
We study the extent to which individuals' consumption decisions are influenced by firms' stances on controversial social issues and the implied incentives for firms to take such st…