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Race and Covid-19: The long-run impact of discrimination

Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena & EIEF) uses a detailed individual-level dataset from Cook County, Illinois, to explore the relationship between COVID-19 mortality and race. Not only are Black Americans disproportionally affected by COVID-19, but they also started to succumb to it earlier than other groups. Such asymmetric effects can be traced back to racial segregation introduced by discriminatory lending practices in the 1930s.

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  • Race and the COVID-19 pandemic [1]
    Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

Topics:  Covid-19 [2] Poverty and income inequality [3]

Tags:  COVID-19 [4], race [5], ethnic discrimination [6]


Source URL: https://voxeu.org/content/race-and-covid-19-long-run-impact-discrimination

Links
[1] https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-covid-19-pandemic
[2] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/covid-19
[3] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/poverty-and-income-inequality
[4] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/10874
[5] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2461
[6] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/7771