Even when adjusted for their parents' level of affluence, black men are four times more likely to be incarcerated than white men raised at the same level of affluence, with the ratio rising to 10 to 1 for those from the richest One Percent.
That's nuts.
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Blacks commit about an order of magnitude more murders than whites. Is this because they are poorer as adolescents?
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My graph based on Harvard economist Raj Chetty's massive database: black men are incarcerated 4x white men with equally affluent parents:
Among men raised in the dirt-poor lowest percentile of parental income, blacks are 3.3 times as likely to be imprisoned as whites.
At the 25th %ile, blacks are confined 3.9 times as often.
50th %ile: 4.5x
75th %ile: 5.0x
98th %ile: 6.7x
100th %ile: 10.7x
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The median black parental income falls at the 27th percentile, where black men are locked up 4.0 times as often as white men. So, all else being equal in terms of adolescent affluence, black men are 4x as likely to find themselves behind bars:
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Black men at the 98th percentile of upbringing are jailed as often as white men at the 50th percentile. Similarly, the black rate at the national median of income is 7.2 percent, a little higher than the white rate at the single lowest percentile.
There is approximately a 2 standard deviation difference in racial propensity to be prison-bound even when controlling for affluence when young.
A 1 SD difference, as in IQ, is large. 2 is huge. 2 SDs after adjusting for childhood income is off the charts
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