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Consider the internment of Japanese during World War 2.
by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Consider the internment of Japanese during World War 2.
- pseudalopex 6y ago"...we find large place effects on individual economic outcomes like income, education, socioeconomic status, house prices, and housing quality. People assigned to richer locations do better on all measures. Random location assignment affected intergenerational economic outcomes as well, with families assigned to more socially mobile areas... displaying lower cross-generational correlation in outcomes."[1] [1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/shoag/publications/long-run-causal-impact-place-evidence-income-and-mobility-effects-japanese https://scholar.harvard.edu/shoag/publications/long-run-caus...
- coldtea 6y agoThat was during war, lasted only a few years, and with endless "we're sorry" afterwards. Hardly the same as 400 years of slavery, and 150 years of Jim Crow, lynchings, redlining, racism, seggregation, and so on...