| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29539 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29539 |
| Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States | |
| Jean-Felix Brouillette; Charles I. Jones; Peter J. Klenow | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-12-06 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We construct a measure of consumption-equivalent welfare for Black and White Americans. Our statistic incorporates life expectancy, consumption, leisure, and inequality, with mortality rates playing a key role quantitatively. According to our estimates, welfare for Black Americans was 43% of that for White Americans in 1984 and rose to 60% by 2019. Going back further in time (albeit with more limited data), the gap was even larger, with Black welfare equal to just 28% of White welfare in 1940. On the one hand, there has been remarkable progress for Black Americans: the level of their consumption-equivalent welfare increased by a factor of 28 between 1940 and 2019, when aggregate consumption per person rose a more modest 5-fold. On the other hand, despite this remarkable progress, the welfare gap in 2019 remains disconcertingly large. Mortality from COVID-19 has temporarily reversed a decade of progress, lowering Black welfare by 17% while reducing White welfare by 10%. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29539 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587213 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jean-Felix Brouillette,Charles I. Jones,Peter J. Klenow. Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States. 2021. |
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