Crime and Punishment: And Skin Hue Too?

摘要

Conditional on being black, there is evidence that skin hue matters for a wide array of socio-economic outcomes. For example, there is evidence that blacks with a dark skin hue fare worse in terms of wages (Arthur H. Goldsmith et al., 2005), occupational prestige (Mark E. Hill, 2000), unemployment (Margaret Hunter et al., 2001), access to health resources (Howard Bodenhorn, 2002), and intergenerational wealth accumulation (Bodenhorn, 2003) than blacks with light-skin hue. Such findings suggest that the distribution of advantage and disadvantage in American life is conditioned not just on being black, but on skin hue as well.