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Sheldon Danzinger and Peter Gottschalk, “The Poverty ofLosing Ground, ” Challenge, May–June 1985, pp.32–38; Sara McLanahan, Glen Cain, Michael Olneck, Irving Piliavin, Sheldon Danzinger, and Peter Gottschalk. “Losing Ground: A Critique,“ Institute for Research on Poverty, Special Report Series, SR #38, August 1985.
See William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr., “Does Welfare Dependency Cause Female Headship?: The Case of the Black Family”Journal of Marriage and the Family 46, no. 4, November 1984.
Sheila D. Ards. “White Female-headed Families: What Causes Their Increase?” Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Urban and Public Affairs (unpub. paper), May 1985.
See William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. “Public Policy and the Black Family,”The Review of Black Political Economy 13, nos. 1–2, Summer–Fall 1985, pp. 165–187.
Understanding welfare policy towards black, moreover, requires a history that begins at least with Reconstruction. See our paper “Down on the Killing Floor: The Courts and The Economic Dependency of the Black Family.” University of Wisconsin Law School. Legal History Program, Summer 1985.
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, New York: Pantheon, 1971.
William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. “Changes in Black-White Income Inequality. 1968–1978: A Decade of Progress?”The Review of Black Political Economy 10, no. 4, Summer 1980. The battle over whether blacks have gotten worse off brings together two uncommon allies: conservative economists and progressive black scholars. The liberal wing of the managerial class contended that affirmative action and equal employment opportunity legislation had reduced the earnings gap between blacks and whites. In contrast, conservatives like James Heckman and Edward Lazear contended that the reductions in earnings disparities were more apparent than real. See Edward Lazear, “The Narrowing of Black-White Wage Differentials is Illusory,”American Economic Review 69, no. 4, September 1979: Richard Butler and James Heckman, “The Impact of the Government on the Labor Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review of the Literature and Some New Evidence,” in Leonard S. Hausman, et al. (eds.).Equal Rights and Industrial Relations (Madison, Wisconsin: Industrial Labor Relations Research Association, 1977); and Butler and Heckman, “A New Look at the Empirical Evidence That Government Policy Has Shifted the Aggregate Relative Demand Function in Favor of Blacks,” University of Chicago, unpub. paper, 1978. Our research, consistent with this latter view, has drawn on the notion that a statistical illusion is created by the analysis of individuals with positive earnings, especially in a world where upward of one-quarter of young blacks are without labor market earnings.
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Darity, W.A., Myers, S.L. Book Review. The Review of Black Political Economy 14, 167–177 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02689884
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