Is the Economics Knowledge Production Function Constrained by Race in the USA?

Price, Gregory N.; Sharpe, Rhonda Vonshay

doi:10.1007/s13132-018-0563-8

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“…At first glance, the vast majority of the African American graduates did not produce dissertation research of direct relevance or impact, however, a look at their careers shows that they have fulfilled the aspirations of enriching and diversifying scholarship on African Americans, contributed to alternative examinations of policy issues, and been leaders in the efforts to diversify the profession. This is consistent with findings of Price and Sharpe (2018) that Black PhD economists are more likely to produce knowledge which can inform public policies on the causes or consequences of racial inequality.…”

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Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience

Simms

Conrad

2019

The Review of Black Political Economy

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Efforts to diversify the economics profession have included increasing the number of African Americans and other people of color who enroll in and complete the PhD degree in economics. This article recounts the experiences of African Americans who entered graduate study at Stanford University between 1967 and 1984 and the university’s record of adding to the pool of African American PhD economists.

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Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience

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Conrad

2019

The Review of Black Political Economy

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“…In this sense, the QP parameter estimates inform a stark assessment of how little racial stratification in the economics profession has changed over the past 50 years. In contemporary times, similar to 50 years ago, the typical PhD-granting economics departments have no Black economists on faculty (Price, 2009; Price & Sharpe, 2017, 2018). The QP parameter estimates in Tables 4 and 5 suggest that the Kerner Commission Report had no effect on the number of Black economists employed at the typical research institution and PhD-granting economics department.…”

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“…Prior to the Kerner Commission Report in 1968, the Price and Sharpe (2017, 2018) data utilized for this article reveal that across the four categorizations of academic institutions we consider, the count of Black economists hired was 4, 2, 3, and 3, respectively. After the Kerner Commission Report through the year 2018, the number of Black economists hired across the four categories was 336, 238, 99, and 56, respectively.…”

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“…The data are based upon that initially considered by Price (2009) and updated by Price and Sharpe (2017, 2018). These data—available upon request from the author—constitute personally maintained and curated data on all known Black economists on the faculties of U.S. colleges/universities.…”

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“…1 For newly minted PhD economists, more than half typically enter the academic labor market (Siegfried & Stock, 1999; Stock & Siegfried, 2014). As the academic labor market for PhD economists constitutes a consequential venue for employment outcomes, and Black PhD economists have been historically underrepresented in this particular labor market (Price, 2009; Price & Sharpe, 2018), assessing how Black PhD economist fared in the academic labor market post-Kerner seems a sensible exercise in evaluating the Kerner Commission Report’s possible effectiveness as a treatment to ameliorate/eliminate racial discrimination in a subset of the U.S. labor market.…”

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The Kerner Commission Report: Did It Incentivize or Cause an Increase in the Production and Hiring of Black PhD Economists in Academia?

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2019

The Review of Black Political Economy

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Approximately 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission Report cited pervasive racial discrimination in training, education, and employment as a contributor to Black–White inequality and stratification in the United States. This article considers if the Kerner Commission Report incentivized and possibly caused an increase in the production and hiring of Black PhD economists in academia. With longitudinal data on counts of economic doctorates earned by Black Americans employed in economics departments between 1957 and 2018, we estimate the parameters of count data specifications that accounts for the 1968 Kerner Commission Report dichotomously. Parameter estimates from mixed and fixed effect Poisson, negative binomial, and Poisson quantile specifications suggest that while the Kerner Commission Report generally had a positive effect on the number of Black American economics doctorates employed as faculty, it had no effect on the hiring of Black economists at the typical research institution and PhD-granting economics department. Our results suggest that similar to the Kerner Commission Report characterization of the United States being two separate racially stratified societies, approximately 50 years later research institutions and PhD-granting economics departments in the United States are similarly racially stratified.

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Historical racial exclusion from board membership at the Southern Economic Association, Western Economic Association International, Midwest Economics Association, and Eastern Economic Association and their affiliated journals

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2021

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This research observes the dearth of Black economists who have ever held positions in the leadership of the Eastern Economic Association, the Southern Economic Association, the Midwest Economics Association, or the Western Economic Association International. It also records the number of Black economists to ever hold positions of editor or be members of the editorial boards of the Eastern Economic Journal, the Southern Economic Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, or Economic Inquiry. Since the creation of the four regional economic associations and their affiliated journals until 2020, the authors estimate that there were over 6800 board positions available. To date, only 17 have ever been filled by Black scholars.

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Is the Economics Knowledge Production Function Constrained by Race in the USA?

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience

Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience

The Kerner Commission Report: Did It Incentivize or Cause an Increase in the Production and Hiring of Black PhD Economists in Academia?

Historical racial exclusion from board membership at the Southern Economic Association, Western Economic Association International, Midwest Economics Association, and Eastern Economic Association and their affiliated journals

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