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Articles by Lukas Althoff
Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage
We thank Ran Abramitzky, Vladimir Asriyan, Marco Bellifemine, Leonard Bocquet, Kyle Herkenhoff, Erik Hurst, Ethan Ilzetzki, Ben Moll, Aureo de Paula, Ricardo Reis, Pascual Restrepo, Todd Schoellman, Jaume Ventura and numerous seminar participants for their insightful comments. Cristian Alamos, Pedro Carvalho, and Bruno Dare Riotto provided excellent research assistance. This work was supported by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
Blindly Discriminating: The GI Bill and Racial Inequality
We thank Marcella Alsan, Desmond Ang, Zach Bleemer, Leah Boustan, Ellora Derenoncourt, Price Fishback, Dan Fetter, Ilyana Kuziemko, Alan Manning, Alex Mas, Stephen Redding, Marco Tabellini, Sarah Turner, and Gavin Wright for insightful comments. Cristian Alamos, Gabriel Chaves Bosch, and Alex Shaffer provided excellent research assistance. This work was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Mothers, Schools, and the Making of American Human Capital Mobility
We thank Leah Boustan, Raj Chetty, Ellora Derenoncourt, Rebecca Diamond, Christian Dustmann, Alice Evans, Jamie Fogel, Claudia Goldin, Ilyana Kuziemko, Robert Margo, Bhash Mazumder, Pablo Mitnik, Petra Moser, Daniele Paserman, Matthew Staiger, Pablo Valenzuela, Nico Voigtländer, Fabian Waldinger, Monia Tomasella, Francesca Truffa, Noam Yuchtman, and numerous seminar participants for insightful comments. Cristian Alamos, Pedro Carvalho, and Alex Shaffer provided excellent research assistance.
The Long Shadows of Slavery and Jim Crow: Uncovering the Economic Impact on Black Americans
This essay is based on the working paper “Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery” by Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt. Racial inequality has been one of the most stubborn challenges confronting American society. Black Americans continue to face significant disadvantages in economic opportunity and prosperity. For instance, the average wealth of a Black person today is less than one-fifth of that of a White person.
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery
This paper studies the long-run effects of slavery and Jim Crow on Black Americans’ economic outcomes. We trace each Black family’s linked census and administrative records between 1850 and 2000 to measure how long they were enslaved and where they lived during Jim Crow. We show that Black families who were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income, and wealth today than Black families who were free before the Civil War.
The Geography of Remote Work
An earlier version of this paper was circulated as “The City Paradox: Skilled Services and Remote Work.” We thank Milena Almagro, Nick Bloom, Joshua Coven, Don Davis, Jonathan Dingel, Ed Glaeser, Caitlin Gorback, Arpit Gupta, and Tommaso Porzio for early comments and help with various data sources. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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