Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination

Abstract

economic outcomes. This literature typically focuses on investigating whether there are racespecific effects present for a particular outcome (years of school, hiring, loan applications) within a particular domain (education, labor markets, housing markets) at a particular point in time. In this paper, I discuss the need to model and measure the cumulative effects of discrimination. For simplicity, I talk about black/white racial differences, but the discussion can be applied to other group comparisons. The paper builds on the discussion of cumulative discrimination found in Blank et al. (2004). Cumulative discrimination is the measure-