Bradley Hardy (Georgetown; Google Scholar) presents Stalled Progress? 5 Many years of Black-White and Rural-City Earnings Gaps (with Shria Holla (B.S. 2024, Kentucky), Elizabeth Krause (PhD 2026, Kentucky) & James P. Ziliak (Kentucky; Google Scholar)), at Georgetown at present as a part of its Tax Legislation and Public Finance Workshop hosted by Emily Satterthwaite and Dayanand Manoli:

Black-White revenue inequality within the U.S. has endured for generations (Smith and Welch 1989; Bayer and Charles 2018). Whereas a lot much less studied, related group-level variations have additionally endured throughout the rural-urban divide within the U.S. (Lichter and Ziliak 2017). These variations embody yawning gaps in schooling attainment, entry to capital, and alternatives for upward financial mobility, amongst others. A lot of the extant literature amongst economists has centered on labor-market outcomes of employment, wages, and earnings, particularly amongst Black and White males. Nevertheless, as a result of many points of the U.S. tax and switch system are focused to lower-income households, it’s doable that the redistributive options of the social security internet have improved the distribution of after-tax and switch revenue of Black and rural households relative to White and concrete households, respectively. To research these developments, we assemble 5 a long time of information from the 1976-2022 Present Inhabitants Survey Annual Social and Financial Complement (CPS ASEC) to make a comparative evaluation of after-tax and switch Black-White and rural-urban family revenue gaps, accounting for redistributive tax and switch applications.