Atheendar Venkataramani Profile picture
Physician and health economist @Penn; Director @OppforHealthLab.
Jul 10, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
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: academic.oup.com/qje/article/13…
(NYT article on this here: nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opi…)