Research & Studies

In 2019, some 4 percent of all White children were homeschooled, compared to 1.2 percent of Black children. Thus, Whites were more than three times as likely as Blacks to be homeschooled. The most commonly reported reasons for homeschooling were concern about the school environment.

A recent study by scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Connecticut, and Pennsylvania State University examined the career trajectories of the first 50 NFL athletes to kneel in protest during a pregame national anthem in 2016.

The website is divided into a series of domains, each of which includes a set of indicators. The indicators highlight disparities in education among population groups, including differences by race/ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, English learner status, and disability status.

A study of students who graduated from law school between 1998 and 2000 found that some 73 percent of Black law school graduates still held student loan debt, 20 years after earning their law degree. Twenty years later, the average debt outstanding for Black law school graduates was more than $74,000.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, researchers found that Black subsidized renters, on average, pay $75 more per month than their White counterparts — a 17 percent upcharge. Black subsidized renters live in units with more unsafe conditions while simultaneously paying more, both in total cost and relative to their income.

Across the country, consumers with good driving records but with poor credit annually pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars more for the basic auto insurance coverage mandated by state laws. Because credit history correlates to race and income, raising premiums on drivers with lower credit disproportionately harms low-income consumers and people of color.

A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that over the past 20 years, the percentage of Black workers with a bachelor’s degree rose from 18.9 percent to 28.3 percent. Yet, despite educational gains, there has not been a reduction in the racial wage gap, mainly due to the fact that Blacks with a college degree continue to face occupational segregation.

A new study by the Ohio Black Student Association finds that large numbers of Black students at colleges and universities in the state reported negative experiences relating to their race. The project surveyed students at nine public four-year universities and three private universities.

The study found that on average, there were 202.70 deaths per 1 million White people each year due to exposure to high levels of fine particulate matter. But, there were 279.24 deaths per 1 million Hispanic people, and 905.68 deaths per 1 million Black people each year.

A team of biomedical researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation has developed a set of processes that helps eliminate traditional barriers to historically excluded groups pursuing academic careers in biomedical engineering.

A new study by researchers at Yale University finds that nearly one third of emergency room patients are jumped in line, with those from marginalized groups — including lower-income patients, non-white patients, and non-English speakers — more likely to be cut by others.

In 2019, the national maternal mortality ratio for all women in the U.S. was 32.1 per 100,000 live births. In Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Georgia, each state had a maternal mortality ratio greater than 100 for 100,000 live births. This is triple the national average.

New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows investors are most likely to push out Black, middle-class homeowners from neighborhoods. Collectively, Black people in the Atlanta area lost more than $4 billion in home equity over a 10-year period because of investors, according to the research.

Using natural language processing tools to analyze transcripts from 17 South Carolina capital cases, researchers determined that prosecutors asked questions with significant differences in the length, complexity, and tone of the questions to potential African-American jurors versus those posed to potential White jurors.

In 2022, 3,825 African Americans committed suicide. There was a 3.6 percent increase in the number of Black suicides in 2022 compared to a 2.1 percent increase among Whites. According to the American Psychiatric Association, African Americans often receive poorer quality mental healthcare and lack access to culturally competent care.

The authors found that only 9 percent of all applicants were seriously considered for the postdoc positions. White applicants were among the most likely to reach that stage, along with women who identified as Black, Latina, or Native American. Black, Latina, or Native American women were the most likely to be interviewed but the least likely of the interviewed candidates to be offered the job.

The analysis found that communities with majority Black residents face larger credit spreads on municipal bonds than communities with non-Black majorities. Applying this borrowing penalty to the entire municipal bond market results in Black Americans paying an estimated $900 million in additional interest costs each year.

In 2022, 4,275,000 African Americans moved. This was 9.8 percent of the Black population. In contrast, 8 percent of the non-Hispanic White population changed their residence in 2022. Slightly more than 5 percent of all African Americans who moved, left the country. Only 2.7 percent of non-Hispanic Whites who moved, left the United States.

A new study led by Mytien Nguyen, a student at Yale Medical School, finds that Black M.D./Ph.D. students are 83 percent more likely than White students to leave medical school and 50 percent more likely to graduate with only a medical doctorate. In total, 29 percent of Black students did not complete their full M.D./Ph.D. training, compared to 17 percent of White students.

A new report from The Century Foundation shows that the 19 historically Black universities that are also 1890 land-grant colleges have not received the same level of federal financial support that has gone to predominantly White land-grant institutions.