From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans

By Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, William Darity. The Journal of human resources, 2007

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Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots (2013, background): “10 Calling this view into question is research that suggests that conditional on being black there are differences in earnings correlated with skin shade (Goldsmith et al., 2006, 2007).”
Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, unknown): “Historically, two pronounced patterns of residential segregation in the U.S. have been the geographic isolation of American Indians on reservations and the residential concentration of African Americans in poor urban areas.”
Using Brazil’s Racial Continuum to Examine the Short-Term Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education (2009, background): “A number of papers demonstrate the importance of skin tone, beyond the influence of race, in the labor market, school, and family (Bodenhorn, 2006; Goldsmith, Hamilton, and Darity, 2006, 2007; Hersch, 2006; Rangel, 2007).”
A Tour de Force in Understanding Intergroup Inequality: An Introduction to Stratification Economics (2015, background): “…body of careful empirical research that consistently undermines both genetic and cultural-behavioral theories of racial and ethnic inequality (e.g. Goldsmith et al. 2006, 2007; Mason 2007, and Senik and Verdier 2011).2 Consistent with human capital explanations for intergroup inequality,…”