Kerwin Kofi Charles

University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy

1155 East 60th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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Scholarly Papers (27)

Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 13-57
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Jun 2013
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 427 (142,579)
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Housing Booms, Manufacturing Decline, and Labor Market Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w18949
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences between Black and White Men Since 1940

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2018-45, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Jul 2018
Patrick J. Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 326 (194,526)
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Racial Inequality, Earnings Inequality, Racial Earnings Gap, Mass Incarceration, Labor Force Participation, Wage Structure

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The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination

NBER Working Paper No. w24904
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan and Jessica Pan
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2018-20
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 17 Apr 2018
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Mariel Schwartz
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago
Downloads 98 (570,522)
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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment

NBER Working Paper No. w24468
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 May 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Mariel Schwartz
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago
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The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13920
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 07 Dec 2020
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms

NBER Working Paper No. w23329
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2023
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Wellesley College, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Demography, Osprey Point Consulting, Lazard Asset Management, Brookings Institution, University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
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Studying Consumption with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and an Application to the Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being

FEDS Working Paper No. 2007-16
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Geng Li, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Sheldon Danziger and Robert F. Schoeni
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Russell Sage Foundation and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Survey Research Center
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Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Intergenerational Consumption Correlation

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Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination

NBER Working Paper No. w13661
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 01 May 2022
Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program
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Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men

NBER Working Paper No. w23552
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 04 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Mark Aguiar, Mark Bils, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst
Princeton University, University of Rochester - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12783
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Nov 2019
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees and Tianyi Wang
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Colorado at Denver and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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infant mortality, public health, black-white infant mortality gap

Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

NBER Working Paper No. w17156
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 19 May 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program
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Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 3, pp. 479-511, 2011
Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program

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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Jan 2019
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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Public Health, Mortality Transition

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Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance

NBER Working Paper No. w21587
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Divergent Paths: Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Black-White Earnings Differences, 1940-2014

NBER Working Paper No. w22797
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022
Patrick J. Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 62 (732,105)
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Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth

NBER Working Paper No. w16748
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Alexandra Killewald
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10074
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Aug 2016
D. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brown, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
University of Washington - Economics, University of Colorado at Denver - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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occupational licensing, midwives, maternal mortality, infant mortality

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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10590
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 11 Mar 2017
University of Washington - Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Central Bank of Chile and University of Colorado Denver
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tuberculosis, public health campaign, mortality

Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14975
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 May 2022
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago and Charles III University of Madrid
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mortality transition, milk inspections, infant mortality, child mortality, public health

Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15295
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 May 2022
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago and Charles III University of Madrid
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milk inspections, infant mortality, waterborne mortality, urban mortality

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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11773
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 17 Sep 2018
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
University of Washington - Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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public health, mortality, chlorination, filtration, pasteurization, sewage

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Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? a Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

NBER Working Paper No. w13667
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2022
Rebecca M. Blank, Kerwin Kofi Charles and James Sallee
U.S. Department of Commerce, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w25027
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout

NBER Working Paper No. w17270
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2023
Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16667
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Dec 2023
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Northwestern University, Charles III University of Madrid and Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Economics
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Poor People's Campaign, election outcomes, voting behavior, protests, race

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The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w22456
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2023
D. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brown, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Colorado at Denver - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
Downloads 40 (890,568)
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12077
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Jan 2019
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees
University of Washington - Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Colorado Denver
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public health, mortality, chlorination, filtration, pasteurization, sewage

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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w23219
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 22 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2022
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Central Bank of Chile and University of Colorado Denver
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