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1/ Here are five papers I've read/revisited recently that collectively (a) describe the myriad ways in which structural racism can influence health and economic outcomes and (b) use new data sources and analytic methods to elucidate these relationships.
2/ Bayer and Charles on the evolution of the Black-white earnings gap, which has grown in recent decades: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/133/3/1459/4830121
(NYT article on this here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/sunday/race-wage-gap.html)
(NYT article on this here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/sunday/race-wage-gap.html)
3/ @CourtneyBoen and colleagues detailed analysis of the nuanced relationship between racial wealth and health gaps: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022146520924811
4/ @CourtneyBoen again, this time on the relatonship between incarceration, biological stress, and physical and mental health: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022146520936208
5/ @RourkeOBrien et al, who use racial gaps in economic opportunity to conceptualize the health consequences of structural racism on mortality disparities: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319303623#bib4
6/ @zinzinator and team's piece on racial capitalism, specifically on how built-in features of occupational environments promote disparities in health outcomes (a thought provoking critique of occupational epi): https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa126/5866668
7/ Importantly, all of these papers are descriptive. I've thus far prioritized quasi-experimental method, but doing so has limited the types of questions I can credibly answer. Careful, theory-driven descriptive work is crucially important to build and complement causal stories.
8/ There are of course other papers. I don't mean to exclude. Just happened to read these five this week.
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