EC 1370 (Spring 2010)
Examples of Well Written Student Papers
More examples of well written student papers
Professor Loury’s Final Lecture
A-) PAPERS
Charles and Guryan on “Prejudice”
Pager and Western on “discrimination testers” in NYC
Pager on “discrimination testers” in Milwaukee
Urzua on Racial Labor Market Gaps
Lang and Manove on Education, Ability and Racial Wage Differences
Loury-Western Daedalus Introduction
NY Times on court break for veterans
Rosen's NYTimes Magazine article on parole
Michelle Alexander’s article on ‘The New Jim Crow’
James Q Wilson's critique of Loury
Loury NY Times essay on the Skip Gates arrest
Justice Policy Institute Report on Racial Effects of Drug Enforcement
Fagan paper on marijuana, race and the police in NYC
Prof. Loury's Tanner Lectures: Lecture I, Lecture II
Wacquant on Prisons and Ghettos
Steven Levitt on Falling Crime Rates
Tonry, " Malign Neglect" Chapter 1, Chapter 3
Meares, "Place and Crime"
Randall Kennedy's Chapter 9 on Race and Capital Punishment
Elliot Currie's Essay, 'The End of Justice'"
Notes on Bruce Western's Punishment and Inequality in America
"The Minority Rights Revolution", Chapter 4
Waldinger, " The New Urban Reality"
"Paper on Mexican Immigration by Borjas and Katz"
"Hutchinson Commentary on Black-Immigrant Competition"
Richard Sander’s paper on Affirmative Action in Law Schools
Loury on AA at DC Circuit Court Judicial Conference, 1987
Loury, "Why Should We Care About Group Inequality"
Loury, "Trans-Generational Justice - Compensatory vs. Interpretative Approaches (essay on reparations)"
Fryer, Loury and Yuret, "Color Blind Affirmative Action"
Loury, " Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action"
"Affirmative Action and Its Mythology " (Fryer and Loury).
Loury Comments on Affirmative Action in South Africa and the US
Walter Benn Michaels, ‘The Trouble with Diversity’
Clampet-Lundquist and Massey on MTO
Orlando Patterson on Gender Relations
Collins and Margo on Economic Effects of Urban Riots
Loury, "Comment on Robert Solow's Tanner Lecture"
Traub, " What No School Can Do "
Paul Tough on No Child Left Behind
Loic Wacquant's critique of Elijah Anderson
Elijah Anderson's reply to Loic Wacquant
Sampson and Raudenbush, "Perceiving Disorder"
Camille Charles, "Neighborhood Racial Composition Preferences"
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 Report on the ‘Negro Family’
Katznelson Summary of "When Affirmative Action Was White"
Lyndon Johnson's Howard University Speech
Randall Kennedy’s 1997 essay, ‘My Negro Problem – And Ours’
Jerry Kang’s “Trojan Horses of Race”
Loury’s JEP paper on Discrimination
Self Censorship in Public Discourse
Self Censorship in Public Discourse (1987)
Loury’s 2008 Brown University Opening Convocation Address
B-) LECTURE NOTES
Lecture Notes on MTO Experiment (II)
Lecture Notes on the MTO Experiment
Lecture Note on Discrimination
Lecture Notes on the Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Lecture Notes on The Anatomy of Racial Inequality II
Lecture Note on Wacquant vs. Anderson
Lecture Note on Campaigning for Respect
Lecture Note on Culture and Causation
Lecture Note on Katznelson (II)
Lecture Notes on Waldinger-Lichter
Lecture notes on Self Censorship
Lecture Notes on Reputation Game
Lecture Notes on " A Simple Investment Hiring Game"
Lecture Notes on Color Blindness
Lecture Notes on Urban Poverty
Lecture Notes on Affirmative Action
Lecture Notes on Black Reparations
Lecture Notes on Place and Crime
C-) DATA AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Loury’s SFI Presentation on AA
Slides on the Economics of Discrimination
Mass Incarceration and American Values
Figures from "Ghettos and the Transmission of Ethnic Capital" by David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor:
Tables and Figures on Justice System and Race
Loury's self-censorship presentation
Slides on the Racial Achievement Gap