I assumed that systemic oppression had caused poverty which led to increased crime rates in black US populations.
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wrote a fantastic piece I'm just now seeing in which they find this is not the case; it seems to be fatherlessness. 1/
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/racial-differences-in-homicide-rates-are-poorly-explained-by-economics/ …
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Why is there such high fatherlessness? Black people tend to cheat more, which is probably a piece to this puzzle, but it only kicks the can farther down the road - *why* do they cheat more? When and how did this disparity start? 3/ https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-of-cheating-in-america …
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Black people are more religious https://pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/racial-and-ethnic-composition/ … and more socially conservative https://pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ … which I would have guessed predicts greater monogamy and 'nuclear family', but seems not to be the case. How long has this been going on? 4/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure#Theories … This has some theories: *African culture emphasizes extended networks, not fatherhood *Something something welfare? *Incarceration? But why didn't this create fatherlessness/cheating/broken families for white people in similar situations?
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The intercept just go down from 3* to 2* if you control for that
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We should abandon household income to determine benefits, insurance and taxation and replace with individual income regardless of marriage status.
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It’s really an improper analysis to ‘control for’ either of those types of variables and then interpret it as if those factors were made to go away. All of these variables potentially affect each other over time and you can’t ‘control for’ some of them with data like this
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