Jeremiah Cotton
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Associate Professor, at UMB since 1985 Areas of Special Interest: Social Welfare, Poverty and Discrimination, Labor Economics
Office: Wheatley 5-076 Phone: 617-287-6965 E-mail: jeremiah.cotton@umb.edu I am currently working in collaboration with Professor James Stewart of Pennsylvania State University on a comparative study of the determinants of racial and ethnic economic differences in employment, income, weatlh and poverty in the United States, Brazil, Israel and South Africa. My monograph on the political and economic status of blacks in the United States continues to be my major ongoing research project. |
Representative Publications:
“Why Has the Black-White Economic Gap Been So Large for So Long,” Review of Black Political Economy, 2002.
“The Enduring Racial Gap,” Social Science Quarterly, 2002.
“On the Permanence or Impermanence of Black-White Economic Inequality,” Review of Black Political Economy, 1999.
“On the Decomposition of Wage Differentials,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988.
