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Kerwin Kofi Charles

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48

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5.6K

Citations

33

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2002

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Affiliations

University of Chicago(Current)

National Bureau of Economic Research

University of Michigan

Northwestern University

Montana State University

Kerwin Kofi Charles is an author at University of Chicago specializing in economics, business, and labor economics.

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2002–2022

48

Publications

48

Conspicuous Consumption and Race<sup>*</sup>

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, Nikolai Roussanov · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2009 · 594 citations

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The Correlation of Wealth across Generations

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst · Journal of Political Economy · 2003 · 423 citations

Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s <i>The Economics of Discrimination</i>

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan · Journal of Political Economy · 2008 · 414 citations

Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots

Jonathan Guryan, Kerwin Kofi Charles · The Economic Journal · 2013 · 354 citations

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The Transition to Home Ownership and the Black-White Wealth Gap

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2002 · 311 citations

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