Research & Studies

Black Economic Mobility in the United States

A new study shows that, particularly for African Americans, there is very little economic mobility.

Study Shows Black Teens Less Likely to Be Sexually Active Than 20 Years Ago

The percentage of Black teenagers who have had sex has dropped by 22 percentage points over the past 20 years.

Stress From Racial Discrimination May Lead to Violent Behavior

A study led by a Washington University faculty member, finds that racial discrimination, more so than other stress, may produce violent behavior among young African Americans.

Rutgers University Study Finds Racial Differences in End-of-Life Planning

The data shows that two thirds of older White adults have a living will compared to just 25 percent of older Blacks.

Study Finds Minority K-12 Schools Have a Higher Percentage of Inexperienced Teachers

The data analyzed by researchers at the University of New Hampshire showed that 10.3 percent of all teachers at schools with a high percentage of minority students were beginning teachers.

Racial Differences in Mortality Rates for Cohabitating Adults

A new study led by researchers at Michigan State University, finds that in terms of mortality, Blacks do not receive the same benefits from marriage as Whites.

University of Chicago Study Finds Counseling Program Reduces Crime Rates of Minority Youth

Teens who participated in the program had a 44 percent reduction in violent crime arrests and a 36 percent reduction in arrest rates for other crimes compared to a control group.

Research Finds Black Youth in Public Housing Are More Likely to Take Up Smoking

Research has found that African American youths who live in public housing projects are 2.3 times more likely to take up smoking than other African American adolescents.

University Research Finds Behavioral Problems of Multiracial Youth May Be Exaggerated

It has been widely believed that multiracial adolescents have more behavioral problems than African Americans and Whites because they are not accepted as peers by either ethnic group.

Survey Finds Declining Percentage of Minority Presidents at Independent Colleges

The Council of Independent Colleges, representing 640 educational institutions, found that the percentage of minority presidents at member institutions dropped from 8 percent in 2006 to 6 percent in 2011.

A Large Racial Gap Persists in Faculty Posts in American Higher Education

The racial gap is especially pronounced at the full professor level where only 3.4 percent of all posts are held by Blacks.

Johns Hopkins University Study Finds Huge Racial Gap in Living Donor Kidney Transplants

One third of all people awaiting kidney transplants in the U.S. are African Americans. But in 2011, only 14 percent of patients receiving new kidneys from living donors were African Americans.

The Myth of Black Economic Progress

All the statistics on income, education, and employment exclude the large number of Americans who are incarcerated in prisons and jails, a population that is disproportionately Black.

Study Finds Women’s Magazines Ignore Health Issues of Importance to African Americans

Crystal Lumpkins of the University of Kansas found that the magazines virtually ignored diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS, major health issues in the Black community.

The Huge Earnings Benefit for Minority Students Who Major in STEM Fields

The study found that Black and other minority students who major in STEM fields earn at least 25 percent more than their peers who majored in humanities or education.

The Changing Face of Residential Segregation

Three professors of geography have produced a new study showing that while racial diversity in American cities has increased in the past two decades, highly diverse neighborhoods are still very rare.

A College Education Provides Major Economic Benefits for Blacks in California

The report found that lifetime earnings for African Americans with a four-year college degree in California have grown 85 percent, after adjusting for inflation, over the past 30 years.

Kansas State University Study Looks at the Gender Aspect of Racial Profiling

White women stopped by police were the most likely group to be let go with only a warning. Black women were just as likely as White men to be ticketed, arrested, or searched.

Harvard Study Finds Lower Education, Not Genetics, Explains Higher Rates of Hypertension Among Blacks

The study showed that blood pressure was significantly lower for Black Americans who had four years of additional education.

Texas Study Finds Race of Teacher Has Little Impact on Black Student Performance

The study examined the academic performance of students at 198 public schools in low-income neighborhoods in the state of Texas.
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