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Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Bruce P. Corrie. 2006. Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: An International Perspective. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Darnell F. Hawkins, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., and Randolph N. Stone. June 2003. Crime Control and Social Justice: The Delicate Balance. Westport CT: Greenwood Press.
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 2000. Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon Publishers.
William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1998. Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the U.S. Since 1945. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Samuel L. Myers Jr., editor. 1997. Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan Bush Era. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. with Emmett D. Carson and William Sabol. 1994. The Black Underclass: Critical Essays on Race and Unwantedness. New York: Garland Publishing.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2004. Chapter 3: Equity and Social Insurance. In Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America. Kathleen Buto, Martha Priddy Patterson, William E. Spriggs and Maya Rockeymoore, Editors. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, National Academy of Social Insurance. Pp. 40-50.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. June 2003. Introduction. In Crime Control and Social Justice: The Delicate Balance. Darnell F. Hawkins, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., and Randolph N. Stone, Editors. Westport CT: Greenwood Press. Pp. ix-xvi.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2003. Chapter 5: If Not Reconciliation, Then What? Race and the 'Stolen Generation' in Australia. In Boundaries of Clan and Colour: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-group Disparity, Advances in Social Economics Series. William A. Darity, Jr., and Ashwini Desphande, Editors. New York: Routledge. Pp. 70-92.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Caroline S. Turner. 2001. Affirmative Action Retrenchment and Labor Market Outcomes for African-American Faculty. In The Quest for Equity in Higher Education: Toward New Paradigms in an Evolving Affirmative Action Era. Beverly Lindsay and Manuel J. Justiz, Editors. Albany: State University of New York Press. Pp. 63-98.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and William A. Darity, Jr. 2001. Racial Economic Inequality in the USA. In The Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Judith R. Blau, Editor. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Pp. 178-195.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and William A. Darity, Jr. 2000. Languishing in Inequality: Racial Disparities in Wealth and Earnings in the New Millennium. In New Directions: African Americans in a Diversifying Nation, National Policy Association Report #297. James S. Jackson, Editor. Washington, D.C.: National Policy Association and Program for Research on Black Americans, University of Michigan. Pp. 86-118.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and William A. Darity, Jr. The Impact of Labor Market Prospects on Incarceration Rates. 2000. In Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans. Chapter 9. Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III, Editors. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp 279-307.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1999. Set-Asides, Minority Business. In The Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Juliet E.K. Walker, Editor. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. Pp. 480-482.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1998. Improved Employment Reduces Crime: Evidence from the African American Experience and Implications for Australia. In Sentencing and Indigeneous Peoples. Rick Sarre and Digby Wilson, Editors. Australian Institute of Criminology Research, Public Policy Series, No. 16.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1998. The Rich get Richer and . . . The Problem of Race and Inequality in the 1990s. In The Angelo State University Symposium on American Values. Kenneth L. Stewart, Editor. Angelo State University.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and William Spriggs. 1997. Black Employment, Criminal Activity and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of New Jersey. In Race, Markets and Social Outcomes. Patrick L. Mason and Rhonda Williams, Editors. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pp. 31-64.
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1997. Faculty Diversity and Affirmative Action. In Affirmative Action's Testament of Hope: Strategies for a New Era. Mildred Garcia, Editor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Pp. 131-148.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. The Error of the Third Type. 1997. In Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America. Edited by Chester Hartman. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Pp. 77-80.
William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1995. Family Structure and the Marginalization of Black Men: Policy Implications. In The Decline in Marriage Among African-Americans. M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Editors. New York: Russell Sage/UCLA Press. Pp. 263-309.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1993. Measuring and Detecting Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era. In Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods, volume 157. John H. Stanfield II and Rutledge M. Dennis, Editors. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Focus Editions.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. Widening Racial Inequalities, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 103rd Congress, First Session 103-42, October 26, 1993.
William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1992. Racial Earnings Inequality in the 21st Century. in State of Black America. Billy Tildwell, Editor. New York: National Urban League/Transactions Press.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. Marginalization of Black Males. Hearings on the African American Male, Banking Committee, U.S. Senate, April 6, 1991. Abridged and reprinted in 1993 -article The Journal of African American Male Studies 1(1).
Samuel Myers, Inhyuck Ha and Rodrigo Lovaton. Affirmative Action Retrenchment in Public Procurement and Contracting. Applied of Economics Letters (forthcoming).
Patrick L. Mason, Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and William A. Darity, Jr. 2005. Is there Racism in Economic Research? European Journal of Political Economy 21(3)(September): 755-761.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. with Hyeoneui Kim and Cheryl Mandala. 2004. The Effect of School Poverty on Racial Gaps in Test Scores: The Case of the Minnesota Basic Standards Tests. Journal of Negro Education 73(1)(Winter): 81-98.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Caroline S. Turner. 2004. The Effects of Ph.D. Supply on Minority Faculty Representation. The American Economic Review Proceedings 94(2)(May): 296-301.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Honorable Lajune Thomas Lange and Bruce Corrie. 2003. The Political Economy of Anti-Racism Initiatives in the Post-Durban Round. The American Economic Review Proceedings 93(2)(May): 330-333.
Sheila D. Ards, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Chanjin Chung, Allan Malkis and Brian Hagerty. 2003. Decomposing Black-White Differences in Child Maltreatment. Child Maltreatment 8(2)(May): 112-121.
Sheila D. Ards, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Allan Malkis with the assistance of Erin Sugre and Li Zhou. 2003. Racial Disproportionality in Reported and Substantiated Child Abuse and Neglect: An Examiniaton of Systematic Bias. Child and Youth Services Review 25(5/6)(May-June): 375-392.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2002. Government-Sponsored Enterprise Secondary Market Decisions: Effects on Racial Disparities in Home Mortgage Loan Rejection Rates. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 6(1): 85-113.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2002. Analysis of Race as Policy Analysis. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21(2): 169-190.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2002. Analysis of Racial Profiling as Policy Analysis. Curriculum and Case Notes. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21(2): 287-300.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Sheila D. Ards. 2001. The Color of Money: Bad Credit, Wealth, and Race. American Behavioral Scientist 45(2)(October): 223-239.
Sheila D. Ards, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Chanjin Chung, Allan Malkis, and Brian Hagerty. Racial Reporting Bias and Child Maltreatment. For presentation at the International Society for The Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect VIII European Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, 24-27 August 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
Chanjin Chung, Samuel L. Myers, Jr., and Lisa Saunders. 2001. Racial Differences in Transportation Access to Employment in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1980 and 1990. The American Economic Review 91(2)(May):174-177. Papers and Proceeding of the One Hundred Thirteen Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, January 5-7, 2001.
William A. Darity, Jr. and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2001. Why Did Black Relative Earnings Surge in the Early 1990s? Journal of Economic Issues XXXV(2)(June).
The Relative Decline in Black Family Incomes During the 1990s, (pdf) a longer earlier version was presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 10, 2000.
Tables (pdf) |
Appendix Tables (pdf)
* Reprinted from the Journal of Economic Issues by special permission of the copyright holder, the Association for Evolutionary Economics.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. If Not Reconciliation, Then What? 2000. Review of Social Economy LVIII(3)(September): 361-380.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Catherine A. Fitch. Testing the Survivalist Entrepreneurship Model. 2000. Social Science Quarterly 81(4)(December): 985-991.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Chanjin Chung. Do the Poor Pay More For Food? An Analysis of Grocery Store Availability and Food Price Disparities. 1999. The Journal of Consumer Affairs 33(2)(Winter): 276-296.
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Samuel L. Myers Jr. and John W. Creswell. 1999. Exploring Underrepresentation: The Case of Faculty of Color in the Midwest. The Journal of Higher Education 70(1)(Jan-Feb):27-59.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. and Chanjin Chung. 1998. Criminal Perceptions and Violent Criminal Victimization. Contemporary Economic Policy XVI)(3)(July):321-333.
Sheila D. Ards, William A. Darity Jr., and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1998. If It Shall Seem Just and Proper: The Effect of Race and Morals on Alimony and Child Support Appeals in the District of Columbia, 1950 - 1980. The Journal of Family History 23(4)(October):441-475.
William A. Darity Jr, Samuel L. Myers Jr., and Chanjin Chung. 1998. Racial Earnings Disparities and Family Structure. Southern Economic Journal 65(1)(July):20-41.
Karen J. Gibson, William A. Darity Jr., and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1998. Revisiting Occupational Crowding in the United States: A Preliminary Study. Feminist Economics 4(3)(Fall):73-95. (pdf)
Sheila D. Ards, Chanjin Chung, and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1998. The Effects of Sample Selection Bias on Racial Differences in Child Abuse Reporting. Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal 22(2)(February):103-126. (pdf)
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1997. Civility and the Threat to Equal Opportunity. The Good Society, a PEGS Journal 7(3)(Fall): 17-18.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. Editor-in-chief and editorial commentary, with Bruce Corrie, managing editor. 1996. Racial and Ethnic Inequality - An International Perspective. International Policy Review 6(1).
Samuel L. Myers Jr. and Chanjin Chung. 1996. Racial Differences in Home Ownership and Home Equity Among Pre-Retirement-Aged Households. The Gerontologist 36(3)(June): 350-360.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. and Lisa Saunders. 1996. The Effect of Commute Time on Racial Earnings- Inequality. Applied Economics 28(10)(October): 1339-1343.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. and Tsze Chan. 1996. Who Benefits from Minority-Business Set-Asides? The Case of New Jersey. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15(2)(Spring):202-226 .
Samuel L. Myers Jr. and Tsze Chan. 1995. Racial Discrimination in Housing Markets: Accounting for Credit Risk. Social Science Quarterly 76(3)(September):543-561.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1993. Racial Disparities in Sentencing: Can Sentencing Reforms Reduce Discrimination in Punishment. University of Colorado Law Review 64(3):781-808.
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1993. 'The Rich Get Richer and . . .- The Problem of Race and Inequality in the 1990s. Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice XI(2)(June):369-389.
"Creative Alternatives to Set Asides" Social Equity Leadership Conference, June 17 2010.
"Legal Background and the Application of Strict Scrutiny" Social Equity Leadership Conference, June 17 2010.
"Final Recommendation for Establishing New Jersey Transit's FY 2010 DBE Goals". August 12, 2009.
"NJT Preliminary DBE Goals 2010," presented by Samuel L. Myers, Jr.; Public Hearing on July 15, 2009. [Microsoft Powerpoint presentation]
"The Effects of Public Policy on Workplace Diversity," presented by Samuel L. Myers, Jr., on February 21, 2007 at Multicultural Forum. [Microsoft Powerpoint presentation]
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota and Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University
Two-part presentation [ Microsoft Powerpoint | Adobe Acrobat ]
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2003. Why are Children of Color Overrpresented in Reports to Protective Services? APSAC Advisor 15(2)(Spring): 10-11.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2002. The Economic Implications of WCAR. Poverty and Race 11(1)(January/February): 3-5.
Chanjin Chung, Sheila D. Ards and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 2001. Sample Selection Bias and Racial Differences in Child Abuse Reporting: Once Again. Letter to the Editor. Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal 25(1)(January): 7-12. (pdf)
Chanjin Chung, Sheila D. Ards and Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1999. Letter to the Editor. Response to Thomas Morton. Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal 23(2)(December): 1211-1215. (pdf)
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1998. Hoberman's Fantasy: How Neoconservative Writing on Sport Reinforces Perceptions of Black Inferiority and Preserves the Myth of Race. A review of Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race. Social Science Quarterly 79(4)(December): 879-884.
Samuel L. Myers Jr., Special section editor and editorial commentary. 1997. In the Case of Race Relations, Minnesota Nice Translates into Silence. Color/s 6(3):14-15.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1997. Myers: Study is 'objective analysis. Jola Education Monthly 33(June).
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1997. On Class and the New Racism. The Voter: League of Women Voters of Minneapolis 55(6)(February).
Samuel L. Myers Jr. 1997. Poverty Not a Major Factor in 8th Grade Test Scores. Minnesota Journal 14(4)(April 22):1, 7.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1997. Why Diversity is a Smokescreen for Affirmative Action. Change 29(4)(July/August): 25-32.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1997. Widening Racial Economic Disparities: A Problem of Minnesota Nice. It's So Facto, a publication of the Minnesota Urban League. Spring.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1995. Affirmative Action in Higher Education. Emerge 6(9)(July/August).
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Do Scholars and Intellectuals Know How to Solve Problems of Racial Minorities? Saint Paul Insight News. October 17, 1995.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Empowerment Efforts Need to Focus on Wealth Inequalities. Insight News. July 17, 1995.
Erling Eide and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1995. Review of Economics of Crime: Deterrence and the Rational Offender. Journal of Economic Literature (XXXIII)(4)(December):2008-2010.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1995. The Black Underclass. Black Excellence (May/June).
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 1994. Are Blacks Dumber than Whites? Black Excellence (November/ December).
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Dumbbells and Bell Curves. Baltimore Evening Sun. November 21, 1994. Reprinted as Bell Curve Answers Wrong Question. The Fresno Bee. November 27, 1994 and as Dumbbells, Bell Curves and Exceptions to the Rule. Arizona Republic. November 28, 1994.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Jobs Fight Crime Better Than Jails. Insight on the News, August 8, 1994.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Racial Prejudice is Behind 'Family Values.' Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 7, 1994.
"Final Recommendation for Establishing New Jersey Transit's FY 2010 DBE Goals". August 2009. Submitted to New Jersey Transit.
"Final Report: The Deterrent Effects of Media Accounts and HUD Enforcement on Racial Disparities in Loan Denial Rate", Samuel L. Myers, Jr. October, 2007. The research discussed in this paper was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Able research assistance was provided by Stephannie Lewis, Andrew Tehmeh, and Bosu Seo.
Recommendation for Establishing New Jersey Transit's FY07 DBE Goals. September 2006. Submitted to New Jersey Transit.
"Final Report: Disparity Study for Essex County, New Jersey. Submitted to Essex County Board of Freeholders." October 30, 2005.
"Final Report: Report to Establish New Jersey Transit’s FY 06 DBE Goals," Submitted to New Jersey Transit.
"Measuring Up: The Impact of Suspensions, Parental Involvement and Textbooks in Four Minneapolis Public Schools," Report to Minneapolis Foundation
"Final Report: The Effects of Welfare on Domestic Violence" Sheila D. Ards and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. February 23, 2003, Submitted to National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, Grant No. DOJ/NIJ/99-WT-VX-0003.
Report (pdf) - Appendix tables are linked to the index of the report
"Final Report: An Availability, Utilization and Decomposition Analysis of New Jersey Transit's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program," January 2002, Submitted to New Jersey Transit.
"Racial Disparities in Minnesota Basic Standards Test Scores, 1996-2000" in cooperation with the Office of Teaching & Learning, Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning and SciMathMN, October 16, 2000.
"The Impacts of Childhood Abuse on Juvenile Violence." (95 KB) Sheila D. Ards, Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Fang Wan.
"The Unintended Impacts of Sentencing Guidelines on Family Structure." 2000.
"A Dream Deferred: The 50/30 Housing Research Initiative Final Report, Yusef Mgeni and Samuel L. Myers Jr., July 1999. A joint publication of The Urban Coalition and the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice.
"The Effects of Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) Secondary Market Decisions on Racial Disparities in Loan Rejection Rates." Main Report (92 KB). Samuel L. Myers, Jr. February 3, 1999. Final Report submitted to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
"America's Best and Worst Lenders", (originally released as "Who's Financing the American Dream?" A comprehensive study of home purchase lending in 20 large metropolitan areas from 1994 -1996, May 1998) William Milczarski, Samuel L. Myers Jr., and Joshua B. Silver, for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, November 1998.
"Analysis of the 1996 Minnesota Basic Standards Test Data," submitted to the St. Louis Park Public Schools and the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning, March 1997. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the large racial gaps in test scores on this new, high-stakes test. The effects of individual, school, and program characteristics on student test scores are examined.
"Do the Poor Pay More?" An Analysis of Grocery Store Availability, Food Price Disparities, and Market Basket Prices in the Twin Cities Area, submitted to the Urban League of Minneapolis, November 1996.
"Fighting Crime and Violence: The Future Role of the Minneapolis Urban League?" Final Report to the Minneapolis Urban League, December 31, 1995.
"Final Report: Minority Faculty Development Project" submitted to the Midwestern Higher Education Commission (with Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner), May 1995.
"Final Report: The Widening Gap: A Summary and Synthesis of the Debate on Increasing Inequality" (with William A. Darity, Jr.) Submitted to the National Commission for Employment Policy, April 1995.
"Final Report, Race, Poverty, and Housing Policy. " A report submitted to Fannie Mae on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending, from the Fannie Mae University Colloquium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, December 3-4, 1993.
Bibliography on Economics of Diversity
A Conversation on Affirmative Action (58 minutes)
Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan- Bush Era (55 minutes)
Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan- Bush Era: Highlights (14 minutes)
An interdisciplinary program in public policy and minority communities: A Working Paper Series
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