Person
Dionissi Aliprantis
Assistant Vice President and Director of the Program on Economic Inclusion
Areas of Expertise
applied econometrics, urban economics, economics of education
Department
Program on Economic Inclusion
Education
- BA,
- Economics and Spanish,
- Indiana University,
- 2004
- BS,
- Mathematics,
- Indiana University,
- 2004
- PhD,
- Economics,
- University of Pennsylvania,
- 2010
Dionissi Aliprantis is an assistant vice president and a senior research economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Dr. Aliprantis directs the Bank’s Program on Economic Inclusion and is responsible for determining its strategy, analysis, and outreach efforts. Dr. Aliprantis leads a team of economists, analysts, and outreach professionals that works to better understand the barriers to economic inclusion and racial equity, identify potential solutions to overcome those barriers, and communicate insights on the policy choices that can create an economy in which all people can fully participate.
His primary research interests include applied econometrics, labor and urban economics, and education. His current work investigates neighborhood effects on education, racial inequality, and labor market outcomes.
Since joining the Bank, Dr. Aliprantis has published research in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the World Bank Economic Review, among other journals. He has been active with several nonprofits in the Cleveland area, including the Sisters of Charity Foundation and The Math Movement.
Dr. Aliprantis is a system affiliate of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group based at the University of Chicago, and on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Literature.
Dr. Aliprantis holds a BS in mathematics and a BA in economics and Spanish from Indiana University and a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Working Papers
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Working Paper
Childhood Exposure to Violence and Nurturing Relationships: The Long-Run Effects on Black Men
07.12.2023 | WP 23-16Black men who witnessed a shooting before turning 12 have household earnings as adults 31 percent lower than those who did not. We present evidence that this gap is causal and is most likely the result of toxic stress; it is not mediated by incarceration and is constant across neighborhood socioeconomic status. Turning to mechanisms related to toxic stress, we study exposure to violence and nurturing relationships during adolescence. Item-anchored indexes synthesize variables on these treatments better than summing positive responses, Item Response Theory, or Principal Components, which all perform similarly. Providing adolescents with nurturing relationships is almost as beneficial as preventing their exposure to violence. -
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The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap
11.29.2022 | WP 19-18RWhat drives the dynamics of the racial wealth gap? We answer this question using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium heterogeneous-agents model. Our calibrated model endogenously produces a racial wealth gap matching that observed in recent decades along with key features of the current cross-sectional distribution of wealth, earnings, intergenerational transfers, and race. Our model predicts that equalizing earnings is by far the most important mechanism for permanently closing the racial wealth gap. One-time wealth transfers have only transitory effects unless they address the racial earnings gap, and return gaps only matter when earnings inequality is reduced. -
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What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
10.19.2022 | WP 20-36RThis paper studies how design features influence the success of Housing Mobility Programs (HMPs) in reducing racial segregation. Targeting neighborhoods based on previous residents' outcomes does not allow for targeting race-specific outcomes, generates uncertainty when targeting income-specific outcomes, and generates bias in ranking neighborhoods' effects. Moreover, targeting opportunity bargains based on previous residents' outcomes selects tracts with large disagreements in current and previous residents' outcomes, with such disagreements predicted by sorting since 1990. HMP success is aided by the ability to port vouchers across jurisdictions, access to cars, and relaxing supply constraints, perhaps by targeting lower-ranked neighborhoods. -
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Opioids and the Labor Market
07.14.2022 | WP 18-07R3This paper quantifies the relationship between local opioid prescription rates and labor market outcomes in the United States between 2006 and 2016. To understand this relationship at the national level, we assemble a data set that allows us both to include rural areas and to estimate the relationship at a disaggregated level. We control for geographic variation in both short-term and long-term economic conditions. In our preferred specification, a 10 percent higher local prescription rate is associated with a lower prime-age labor force participation rate of 0.53 percentage points for men and 0.10 percentage points for women. We focus on measuring the impact of opioid prescriptions on labor markets, so we evaluate the robustness of our estimates to an alternative causal path, unobserved selection, and an instrumental variable from the literature. -
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Neighborhood Sorting Obscures Neighborhood Effects in the Opportunity Atlas
12.01.2020 | WP 20-37The Opportunity Atlas (OA) is an innovative data set that ranks neighborhoods according to children’s adult outcomes in several domains, including income. Conceptually, outcomes offer new evidence about neighborhood effects when measured in isolation from neighborhood sorting. This paper shows that neighborhood sorting contributes to OA estimates. We document cases in which small sample sizes and changes over time can explain disagreements between OA rankings and those based on contemporaneous variables. Our results suggest caution for interpretations of the OA data set at a granular level, particularly for predictions about the outcomes of black children in high-income neighborhoods. -
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What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
11.24.2020 | WP 20-36There is currently interest in crafting public housing policy that combats, rather than contributes to, the residential segregation in American cities. One such policy is the Housing Mobility Program (HMP), which aims to help people move from disinvested neighborhoods to ones with more opportunities. This paper studies how design features influence the success of HMPs in reducing racial segregation. We find that the choice of neighborhood opportunity index used to define the opportunity areas to which participants are encouraged to move has limited influence on HMP success. In contrast, we find that three design features have large effects on HMP success: 1) whether the geographic scope is confined to the central city or is implemented as a metro-level partnership; 2) whether the eligibility criteria are race-based, race-conscious, or race-neutral; 3) whether tenant counseling, tenant search assistance, and landlord outreach are successful in relaxing rental housing supply constraints. -
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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
12.13.2019 | WP 12-08R3This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transition-specific effects that exploits identification of the unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. Estimated Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs) are large, result from moves between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality, and pertain to a subpopulation of nine percent of program participants. -
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Landlords and Access to Opportunity
11.21.2019 | WP 19-02R2Landlords in high-opportunity neighborhoods screen out tenants using vouchers. In our correspondence experiment, signaling voucher status cuts landlord responses in half. This voucher penalty increases with posted rent and varies little with signals of tenant quality and race. We repeat the experiment after a policy change and test how landlords respond to raising voucher payment limits by $450 per month in high-rent neighborhoods. Most landlords do not change their screening behavior; those who do respond are few and operate at small scale. Our results suggest a successful, systematic policy of moving to opportunity would require more direct engagement with landlords. -
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Opioids and the Labor Market
11.15.2019 | WP 18-07R2The second revision of this working paper studies the relationship between local opioid prescription rates and labor market outcomes for prime-age men and women between 2006 and 2016. We estimate three panel models to control for evolving local economic conditions: a difference-in-differences specification, a specification with specific controls for economic conditions, and a model that focuses on a comparison group of place with similar performance in 2000. These modelling approaches find a range of statistically significant and economically substantial results for both prime-age men and women. -
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The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap
10.08.2019 | WP 19-18We reconcile the large and persistent racial wealth gap with the smaller racial earnings gap, using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agents model that matches racial differences in earnings, wealth, bequests, and returns to savings. Given initial racial wealth inequality in 1962, our model attributes the slow convergence of the racial wealth gap primarily to earnings, with much smaller roles for bequests or returns to savings. Cross-sectional regressions of wealth on earnings using simulated data produce the same racial gap documented in the literature. One-time wealth transfers have only transitory effects unless they address the racial earnings gap. -
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What Explains Neighborhood Sorting by Income and Race?
10.08.2019 | WP 1808RWhy do high-income black households live in neighborhoods with characteristics similar to those of low-income white households? We find that neighborhood sorting by income and race cannot be explained by financial constraints: High-income, high-wealth black households live in similar-quality neighborhoods as low-income, low-wealth white households. We provide evidence that black households sort across neighborhoods according to some non-pecuniary factor(s) correlated with the racial composition of neighborhoods. Black households sorting into black neighborhoods can explain the racial gap in neighborhood quality at all income levels. The supply of high-quality black neighborhoods drives the neighborhood quality of black households. -
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Landlords and Access to Opportunity
08.30.2019 | WP 19-02RDespite being eligible for use in any neighborhood, housing choice vouchers tend to be redeemed in low-opportunity neighborhoods. This paper investigates how landlords contribute to this outcome and how they respond to efforts to change it. We leverage a policy change in Washington, DC, that increased voucher rental payments only in high-rent neighborhoods. Using two waves of a correspondence experiment that bracket the policy change, we show that most opportunity landlords screen out prospective voucher tenants, and we detect no change in average screening behavior after a $450 per month increase in voucher payments. In lease-up data, however, enough landlords do respond to increased payments to equalize the flow of voucher tenants into high- vs. low-rent neighborhoods. Using tax data and listings from a website specializing in subsidized housing, we characterize a group of marginal opportunity landlords who respond to higher payments. Marginal opportunity landlords are relatively rare, list their units near market rates, operate on a small scale, and negatively select into the voucher program based on hard-to-observe differences in unit quality. -
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Opioids and the Labor Market
03.01.2019 | WP 18-07ROur first revision of this working paper improves the joint measurement of labor market outcomes and prescription rates in the rural areas where nearly 30 percent of the US population lives. We find that increasing the local prescription rate by 10 percent decreases the prime-age employment rate by 0.50 percentage points for men and 0.17 percentage points for women. Our estimates imply that prescription opioids can account for 44 percent of the realized national decrease in men’s labor force participation between 2001 and 2015. -
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Can Landlords Be Paid to Stop Avoiding Voucher Tenants?
01.18.2019 | WP 19-02Despite being eligible for use in any neighborhood, housing choice vouchers tend to be redeemed in low-opportunity neighborhoods. This paper investigates whether landlord behavior contributes to this outcome by studying the recent expansion of neighborhood-based voucher limits in Washington, DC. We conduct two waves of a correspondence experiment: one before and one after the expansion. Landlords heavily penalize tenants who indicate a desire to pay by voucher. The voucher penalty is larger in high-rent neighborhoods, pushing voucher tenants to low-rent neighborhoods. We find no evidence that indexing rents to small areas affects landlord acceptance of voucher tenants. The data can reject the claim that increasing rent limits by less than $3,000 per month can eliminate the voucher penalty. Neighborhood rent limits do shift lease-up locations toward high-rent neighborhoods in the year after the policy change, an effect that is large relative to the number of voucher households that move but small relative to all voucher tenants. -
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Can Wealth Explain Neighborhood Sorting by Race and Income?
06.13.2018 | WP 18-08Why do high-income blacks live in neighborhoods with characteristics similar to those of low-income whites? One plausible explanation is wealth, since homeownership requires some wealth, and black households hold less wealth than white households at all levels of income. We present evidence against this hypothesis by showing that wealth does not predict sorting into neighborhood quality once race and income are taken into account. An alternative explanation is that the scarcity of high-quality black neighborhoods increases the cost of living in a high-quality neighborhood for black households with even weak race preferences. We present evidence in favor of this hypothesis by showing that sorting into neighborhood racial composition is similar across wealth levels conditional on race and income. -
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Opioids and the Labor Market (2018 version)
05.15.2018 | WP 18-07Our original working paper on opioids and the labor market finds evidence that opioid availability decreases labor force participation while a large labor market shock does not influence the share of opioid abusers. We first identify the effect of availability on participation using a combination of the American Community Survey (ACS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) county-level prescription data to examine labor market patterns across both rural and metropolitan areas of the United States from 2007 to 2016. We also investigate the possibility of reverse causality, using the Great Recession as an instrument to identify the effect of weak labor demand on opioid abuse. -
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Evidence on the Production of Cognitive Achievement from Moving to Opportunity
05.12.2017 | WP 17-07This paper performs a subgroup analysis on the effect of receiving a Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing voucher on test scores. I find evidence of heterogeneity by number of children in the household in Boston, gender in Chicago, and race/ethnicity in Los Angeles. To study the mechanisms driving voucher effect heterogeneity, I develop a generalized Rubin Causal Model and propose an estimator to identify transition-specific Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs) of school and neighborhood quality. -
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Differences of Opinions
01.20.2016 | WP 16-04This paper presents a generalization of the DeGroot learning rule in which social learning can lead to polarization, even for connected networks. -
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity
10.21.2015 | WP 15-25This paper studies related counterfactual policies using an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation. -
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Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Local and Citywide Effects of Demolishing High-Concentration Public Housing on Crime
06.01.2015 | WP 10-22RThis paper estimates the effect that the closure and demolition of roughly 20,000 units of geographically concentrated high-rise public housing had on crime in Chicago. -
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A Distinction between Causal Effects in Structural and Rubin Causal Models
03.25.2015 | WP 15-05Under different definitions, notationally similar causal effects make distinct claims about the results of interventions to the system under investigation. -
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Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
03.25.2015 | WP 15-06This paper presents a reanalysis of the MTO experiment and literature. Results illustrate why the implicit identification strategies used in the literature on MTO can be misleading. -
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What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff when Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?
10.22.2014 | WP 14-24This paper quantitatively compares water infrastructure interventions that prioritize equity with those that prioritize efficiency. -
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Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
09.01.2014 | WP 12-33RThis paper shows that treatment effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility program should not be interpreted as evidence on neighborhood effects. -
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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from MTO: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
08.01.2014 | WP 12-08R2This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. -
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Human Capital in the Inner City
06.15.2014 | WP 13-02RThis paper quantitatively characterizes the "code of the street" from the sociology literature, using the nationally-representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data set to investigate how black young males alter their behavior. -
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Covariates and Causal Effects: The Problem of Context
08.19.2013 | WP 13-10I show there is a tradeoff between identification and prediction driven by a fact I call the problem of context: Treatment always influences the outcome variable in combination with covariates. -
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Covariates and Causal Effects: The Problem of Context
08.19.2013 | WP 13-10RI show there is a tradeoff between identification and prediction driven by a fact I call the problem of context: Treatment always influences the outcome variable in combination with covariates. -
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Human Capital in the Inner City
02.15.2013 | WP 13-02This paper quantitatively characterizes the "code of the street" from the sociology literature, using the nationally-representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data set to investigate how black young males alter their behavior. -
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity
02.01.2013 | WP 12-12R2This paper uses an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation to investigate the effects of neighborhood externalities. -
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity
11.01.2012 | WP 12-12R1This paper uses an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation to investigate the effects of neighborhood externalities. -
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Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti
10.01.2012 | WP 12-01RThis paper evaluates a new technology for providing water. -
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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from MTO: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
10.01.2012 | WP 12-08R1This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. -
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity
05.09.2012 | WP 12-12This paper uses an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation to investigate the effects of neighborhood externalities. -
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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from MTO: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
03.30.2012 | WP 12-08This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. -
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When Should Children Start School?
03.01.2012 | WP 11-26RThis paper presents evidence that instrumental variable frameworks do not identify age effects for the youngest children of a cohort using the results of statistical tests for essential heterogeneity in initial enrollment decisions. -
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Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti
01.02.2012 | WP 12-01This paper evaluates a new technology for providing water. -
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When Should Children Start School?
10.20.2011 | WP 11-26This paper presents evidence that instrumental variable frameworks do not identify age effects for the youngest children of a cohort using the results of statistical tests for essential heterogeneity in initial enrollment decisions. -
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Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
09.08.2011 | WP 11-22RThis paper shows that treatment effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility program should not be interpreted as evidence on neighborhood effects. -
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Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
01.04.2011 | WP 11-01This paper has been updated and expanded. For the new version, see WP 11-22. -
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Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Effect of Demolishing High-Concentration Public Housing on Crime
12.02.2010 | WP 10-22This paper estimates the effect that the closure and demolition of roughly 20,000 units of geographically concentrated high-rise public housing had on crime in Chicago. -
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Redshirting, Compulsory Schooling Laws, and Educational Attainment
09.13.2010 | WP 10-12This paper shows how delayed entry into kindergarten can make it all but impossible to interpret estimates obtained through a framework that uses the date of birth as an instrument to study the causal effects of educational attainment.
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Economic Commentaries
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Economic Commentary
K–12 Schools in Ohio Are Separate and Unequal
10.16.2023 | EC 2023-16Schools are a determinant of lifetime success. Research shows Black and white students in Ohio attend separate schools with unequal opportunity, disadvantaging Black students. -
Economic Commentary
The Racial Wealth Gap and Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods
09.09.2021 | EC 2021-18Some Black households live in neighborhoods with lower incomes than their own incomes might suggest, and this may impede their economic mobility. We investigate possible reasons and find that differences in financial factors do not explain racial distributions across neighborhoods. Our findings indicate other factors such as discrimination in the housing market, racial hostility, and social networks are at work. -
Economic Commentary
Measuring Deaths from COVID-19
07.08.2020 | EC 2020-18Medical data are new to the analyses and deliberations of Federal Reserve monetary policymakers, but such data are now of primary importance to policymakers who need to understand the virus’s trajectory to assess economic conditions and address the virus’s impacts on the economy. The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 is one key metric that is often referred to, but as with other COVID metrics, it is a challenge to measure accurately. We discuss the issues involved in measuring COVID-19 deaths and argue that the change in the number of directly observed COVID-19 deaths is the most reliable and timely approach when using deaths to judge the trajectory of the pandemic in the United States, which is critical given the current inconsistencies in testing and limitations of hospitalization data. -
Economic Commentary
Racial Inequality, Neighborhood Effects, and Moving to Opportunity
11.04.2019 | EC 2019-17Moving to Opportunity (MTO) was a housing mobility program designed to investigate neighborhood effects, the influences of the social and physical environment on human development and well-being. Some of the results from MTO have been interpreted as evidence that neighborhood effects are not as strong as earlier evidence had indicated. This Commentary discusses new research suggesting that neighborhood effects are, on the contrary, as strong and policy relevant as suspected before the experiment. This Commentary also discusses why the interpretation of the MTO data is important: If neighborhood effects drive outcomes, then addressing racial inequality requires concerted efforts beyond ending racial discrimination. -
Economic Commentary
What Is Behind the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap?
02.28.2019 | EC 2019-03Most studies of the persistent gap in wealth between whites and blacks have investigated the large gap in income earned by the two groups. Those studies generally concluded that the wealth gap was “too big” to be explained by differences in income. We study the issue using a different approach, capturing the dynamics of wealth accumulation over time. We find that the income gap is the primary driver behind the wealth gap and that it is large enough to explain the persistent difference in wealth accumulation. The key policy implication of our work is that policies designed to speed the closing of the racial wealth gap would do well to focus on closing the racial income gap. -
Economic Commentary
The Opioid Epidemic and the Labor Market
09.29.2017 | EC 2017-15Drug overdoses now account for more deaths in the United States than traffic deaths or suicides, and most of the increase in overdose deaths since 2010 can be attributed to opioids--a class of drugs that includes both prescription pain relievers and illegal narcotics. We look at trends in drug use and overdose deaths to document how the opioid epidemic has evolved over time and to determine whether it could be large enough to impact the labor force. -
Economic Commentary
The Consequences of Exposure to Violence during Early Childhood
05.02.2016 | EC 2016-03Our analysis shows that exposure to violence in early childhood is related to higher mortality in adulthood for black males and is also related to a host of undesirable outcomes later on for both black and white males. -
Economic Commentary
Neighborhood Poverty and Quality in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
04.16.2015 | EC 2015-04We study census data to identify neighborhood characteristics in addition to poverty that might help to explain disparities that exist in such outcomes as health, employment, and education. -
Economic Commentary
Which Poor Neighborhoods Experienced Income Growth in Recent Decades?
04.09.2014 | EC 2014-06Why has average income grown in some poor neighborhoods over the past 30 years and not in others? -
Economic Commentary
The Concentration of Poverty Within Metropolitan Areas
01.31.2013 | EC 2013-01Not only has poverty recently increased in the United States, it has also become more concentrated. -
Economic Commentary
Concentrated Poverty
12.21.2011 | EC 2011-26Although the U.S. poverty rate was the same in 2000 as it was in 1970, the geographic distribution of the poor has become more concentrated. -
Economic Commentary
Concentrated Poverty: Online Appendix
12.21.2011 | EC 2011-26The online appendix has a technical discussion about the sample and the variables used in the construction of poverty rates in 1970 and 2000. -
Economic Commentary
The Growing Difference in College Attainment between Women and Men
10.18.2011 | EC 2011-21Workers with more education typically earn more than those with less education, and the difference has been growing in recent decades.
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Ask the Expert
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Ask the Expert
What impact do you aim to make on Americans with your research on the racial wealth gap and through the Bank’s broader Program on Economic Inclusion?
10.19.2021The Cleveland Fed’s Program on Economic Inclusion is trying to think through what the obstacles are to inclusion and some of the possible solutions. -
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Your research has found that there’s reason to focus policy efforts to improve neighborhoods in order to improve opportunities for people. Where did you grow up, and how did it affect you? What did your research find about the influence of neighborhoods on us?
02.11.2020Research shows that neighborhoods matter and how cities are structured through policies—schools, transportation, safety—matters for the success of its residents.
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Economic Trends
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Economic Trends
Educational Attainment and Demographic Differences in Employment
03.18.2013It is well-known that employment outcomes such as unemployment rates and employment-to-population ratios vary markedly across demographic groups. Differences in unemployment rates are especially pronounced across age and racial groups.
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Forefront
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Forefront
Experiments in Education: What’s Working in Your Town?
Dionissi Aliprantis Michael D. Bordo Jean Burson Todd E. Clark Joan Curran Darkortey Thomas J. Fitzpatrick IV Jacob Kuipers Daniel A. Littman Mary Helen Petrus Sandra Pianalto01.23.2013 | Fall 2012, Vol. 3, No. 3Across America, schools are embarking on grand experiments to improve educational outcomes. At the same time, economists are examining what works and what doesn't. The latest issue of Forefront takes an illustrated look at some of the myriad reforms happening in Anytown, USA.
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Other Publications
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Doing What it Takes to Support Students
09.07.2023Sara Elaqad discusses how the intensive support of the Mind Matters Cleveland program helps low-income high school students get into college and succeed in coursework and careers. -
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The limitations of low-touch behavioral interventions for student success
09.07.2023University of Toronto economics professor Philip Oreopoulos discusses the evidence on comprehensive services improving the academic performance of low-income students and efforts to scale the effectiveness of tutoring programs. -
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The Provost Scholars Program at Case Western Reserve University
09.07.2023Professor Faye Gary explains why caring relationships and the social networks they can open up are such crucial components of Case Western Reserve University’s Provost Scholars mentoring program. -
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Could Tutoring Be a Standard Part of the School Day?
09.07.2023Matthew Kraft, an economics and education professor at Brown University, discusses arguments for making tutoring a regular, more broadly used component of the daily schedule in US public schools. -
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The promise of comprehensive support for student success
09.07.2023University of Toronto economics professor Philip Oreopoulos discusses efforts to make tutoring a more affordable tool for improving the academic performance of low-income students. -
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An Example of STEM Enrichment Programs
07.28.2023Daniel Zaharopol is the founder of Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM). He describes the support BEAM provides to underserved students to enable them to acquire the math training needed to pursue a STEM education. -
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Encouraging STEM as a College Major
07.28.2023Preferences for college majors often are formed years before students set foot on campus, says Basit Zafar, an economics professor at the University of Michigan. Zafar discusses the factors in childhood and adolescence that could encourage or discourage underrepresented groups, like women and minorities, from seeking STEM educations. -
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An Overview of STEM Enrichment Programs
07.28.2023Engaging students with STEM content early and often is key to their successful pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering and math, according to Me’lani Joseph, who recently surveyed STEM enrichment initiatives in Northeast Ohio. She talks about what such programs can do to encourage underrepresented groups to choose STEM careers. -
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One STEM Career Serving as an Example
07.28.2023How can we create more pathways to STEM careers? We spoke with Dr. Woodrow Whitlow about the path that led to his distinguished career at NASA. Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. holds a doctorate from MIT and had a decades-long career as a researcher and senior administrator at NASA. He describes how he realized his dreams of working on the space program. -
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Supporting kids who face toxic stress
06.01.2023Charles Cox talks about his passion for supporting kids, describes the reality of toxic stress, and explains why patience and empathy are so important when dealing with toxic stress responses. -
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What makes technical education successful today?
06.01.2023Professor Shaun Dougherty, a professor of education and policy at Boston College, talks about the ways career and technical education has changed in response to changes in the economy and how employer partnerships can be valuable in supporting a program’s curriculum and hiring its graduates. -
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How stress in children’s lives can change their trajectories as adults
06.01.2023Dr. Andrew S. Garner describes how childhood adversity can become biologically embedded through toxic stress to cause negative outcomes in adulthood. But he also describes emerging research on the ways that safe, stable, and nurturing relationships with adults can ameliorate toxic stress and lead to positive outcomes. -
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The role of race in the labor market
06.01.2023Professor Dan O’Flaherty is an economist at Columbia University who has studied racial inequality, homelessness, and crime, among other topics. He describes important results from economics research on racial inequality in the labor market. -
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Creating authentic experiences to excite students about career paths
06.01.2023Tim Jones, the founding principal of Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School, explains how certain experiences have effectively engaged and inspired his students. He describes the unique partnerships that allow the school to offer such experiences to its students and how those partnerships could be replicated in technical schools across the country. -
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Public policy and the formation of residentially segregated cities
06.01.2023Richard Rothstein talks about how his work on education led to his focus on residential segregation. As he was writing about educational inequality, he noticed that many problems in education could be traced back to residential segregation and the accompanying concentration of poverty in certain schools. -
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Overcoming racial discrimination: One person’s story
06.01.2023Professor Faye Gary discusses the racism and discrimination she encountered during her education and the support that helped her overcome the barriers she faced. -
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Public policy and toxic stress
06.01.2023Professor Ruby Mendenhall describes how she sees the toxic stress generated by exposure to violence as a root cause of many problems, so that asking about individuals’ adverse childhood experiences is a constructive way to start searching for policy solutions. -
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What does it take to help workers upskill?
06.01.2023David Wintrich, a cofounder of Tech Elevator and board member at the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting, talks about the elements that make a successful coding bootcamp. He describes the recipe for student success, both in and outside of the classroom.
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Interview
Opinion: For Black Ohioans, earnings gap drives wealth disparities
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Cleveland Fed ramps up efforts to address economic inequities
12.21.2021Dionissi Aliprantis, assistant VP and a senior research economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, joins Yahoo Finance Live's Time For Change to discuss initiatives to address income inequality in the U.S.
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"What Explains Neighborhood Sorting by Income and Race?" With Daniel R. Carroll and Eric R. Young. Journal of Urban Economics, 2022 (Dec): 103508.
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"Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay." Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming.
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"Landlords and Access to Opportunity." With Hal Martin and David Phillips. Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 129
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"Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality." The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(4): 633-647.
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“What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff when Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?” World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(2): 482–504.
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“Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity.” With Daniel Carroll. Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9,(1): 247–303.
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“Human Capital in the Inner City.” Empirical Economics, 2017, 53(3): 1125–1169.
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“Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity.” Empirical Economics, Special Issue on Program Evaluation, 2017, 52(3): 925–954.
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“Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Local and Citywide Effects of Demolishing High-Concentration Public Housing on Crime.” With Daniel Hartley. Journal of Urban Economics, 2015, 8: 67–81.
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“When Should Children Start School?” Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4): 481–536.
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“Redshirting, Compulsory Schooling Laws, and Educational Attainment.” Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012, 37(2): 316–338.
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