Introduction For this post, I want to look at the earnings of immigrants by the year that they immigrate to the United States. I want to to this because I am interested in looking to see if the earnings of immigrants are declining over time. I hear a constant debate ...

Introduction On July 26, 2020, Propublica released a dataset on police discipline records. I wanted to get a look at the data and do some exploratory analysis.

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Often, when presented with evidence of racism, or the existence of racism, critics will say neither exists, at least not in a meaningful way because many immigrant groups have higher household incomes than White Americans. These critics often point to the median household income of Nigerian Americans are irrefutable proof ...

At work recently, I ran into a situation where the wonderful tabulizer package was just not picking up a table. I thinkt it was because the table was just text, and the cells were quite large, much like in the table below: the full pdf can be found here In ...

Exploring Explanations Of the Black-White wealth gap The black-white wealth gap is nearly 15:1; the mean of black household wealth is $138,200; for white houesholds it is $933,700. A frequent explanation has been single-parent families in the Black community (1, 2 3) or culture (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Fortunately, we can test these claims. I am going to use the ...