The data in this repository includes a database of Black Economists created for reference in the Francis, Hardy, and Jones (2021) article "Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance" in the Journal of Economic Literature. The database is stored in a comma separated file, i.e. .csv. The data were all collected from publicly available data online via scholar websites, biographical entries, and curricula vitae.
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period: 1921 – 2021
Universe: Black economists
Data Type(s): observational data
Unit of Observation: individual
The following publications are supplemented by the data in this project.
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Francis, Dania V., Bradley L. Hardy, and Damon Jones. “Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance.” Journal of Economic Literature 60, no. 2 (June 2022): 454–93. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20211686.
