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Crack cocaine and education

11 Oct 2012

From William N. Evans, Craig Garthwaite, Timothy J. Moore: We propose the rise of crack cocaine markets as an explanation for the end to the convergence in black-white educational outcomes beginning in the mid-1980s. After constructing a measure to date the arrival of crack markets in cities and states, we show large increases in murder [...]
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Tyler Cowen

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