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Pew Research and other surveys have painted millennials as a more inclusive demographic than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, suggesting a post-racial America is on the horizon. But actions speak louder than words. A new housing study by a white UCLA sociology professor S. Michael Gaddis suggests that notion may be a misconception. Gaddis used a research method known as a “correspondence audit” to examine millennials’ decision-making in a deeply personal real-world scen...

School and day care center restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic have presented enormous challenges to parents trying to juggle work with child-care responsibilities. Still, empirical evidence on the impact of pandemic-related child-care constraints on the labor market outcomes of working parents is somewhat mixed. Some studies suggest the pandemic had no additional impact on the labor supply of parents, while other studies show not only that it did but that the negative impact was dispropo...

Date Time Racial disparities in excess mortality in Minnesota in 2020 are worse than previously reported Excess mortality – defined as deaths above what would be expected based on prior years – was worse in Minnesota in 2020 than expected, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the University of Minnesota. On the surface, Minnesota seems to have had a relatively equal COVID-19 pandemic compared to other states. For example, white Minnesotans are about 80% of th...