Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII.
This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for White men and the Black–White gap was larger in counties with higher levels of racial discrimination. The resul...
| Publicado en: | Review of Economic Studies Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 1261 - 1296 |
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Mar2026
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