01370nam a22001457a 4500 525261 525261 240220b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Eli, S.J., Logan, T.D. and Miloucheva, B. 49994 The enduring effects of racial discrimination on income and health Journal of Economic Literature 61(3), Sep, 2023: p. 924-940 We investigate the effect of income on the long-standing racial mortality gap in the United States by using evidence from White and Black Civil War veterans who went on to receive postwar pensions. To circumvent endogeneity, we propose an exogenous source of variation in pension income: the judgment of the doctors who certified disability. We find large effects of pension income on longevity; large enough to close the Black–White mortality gap, in principle. However, because physicians discriminated against Blacks when evaluating the existence and severity of disabilities, Blacks received reduced pension benefits that failed to eliminate racial mortality gaps in practice. Our findings shed light on the role of beliefs about race, as opposed to racial animus, in contributing to racial differentials in well-being.- Reproduced https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221706 Journal of Economic Literature RACE DISCRIMINATION AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 400318 IIPA IIPA 2024-02-20 61(3), Sep, 2023: p. 924-940 AR131069 2024-02-20 AR