Structural racism, economic opportunity and racial health disparities: Evidence from U.S. counties

In this study, we introduce the ‘racial opportunity gap’ as a place-based measure of structural racism for use in population health research. We first detail constructing the opportunity gap using race-sex specific estimates of intergenerational economic mobility outcomes for a recent cohort. We the...

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Published in:	SSM: Population Health
Main Authors:	Rourke O'Brien, Tiffany Neman, Nathan Seltzer, Linnea Evans, Atheendar Venkataramani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2020-08-01
Subjects:	Race Racism Mortality Racial health disparities Population health Inequality
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319303623