Dania V Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 904636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dania V Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dania V |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6251-0992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Impacts of Climate Hazards on Employment and Earnings by Hazard Type, Industry, Race, and Ethnicity
We examine the relationship between climate-related disasters and subsequent county-level aggregate employment and earnings. We combine earnings and employment data from 2000 to 2023 with data on disasters to estimate local projection impulse response functions relating extreme disaster events to cumulative percent changes in employment and earnings. On average, disasters appear to reduce employment growth three to five years post disaster. There…
Restaurant Advertising Expenditure Patterns in US Counties by Race, Ethnicity, and Income
Recent growth in the share of household dollars spent on food consumed outside the home, in combination with growing obesity disparities, has heightened interest in food advertising by geography and population demographics. This study aimed to identify changes in advertising expenditure by US restaurant chains across counties, grouped by income, race, and ethnicity, specifically examining whether the lowest income and highest percentage of Black …
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
Racial differences in the relationship between the receipt of informal financial support and social insurance
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the reliance on informal financial support and social insurance programs such as unemployment insurance to meet financial hardships imposed during the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. We use the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to compare the likelihood of receiving informal financial support from family and friends for households that did or did not receive social insurance…
Stable School Integration
Separate and Unequal Under One Roof
In this article, we use administrative data from three cohorts of North Carolina public high school students to examine the effects of within-school segregation on the propensity of academically eligible black high school students to take advanced math courses. Our identification strategy takes advantage of cohort-to-cohort variation in the share of eleventh and twelfth grade black students enrolled in advanced math courses when a cohort first en…
Economic Inequality, the Digital Divide, and Remote Learning During Covid-19
Wealth and education establish a cycle of intergenerational inequality. Wealthier households can provide more educational opportunities for their children, who then will have more chances to build wealth for themselves. The digital divide may have emerged as a key reinforcing mechanism of education through wealth and of future wealth through education during the pandemic. The intergenerational transmission of racial wealth inequality likely playe…
Isolation
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Teacher Perceptions of Black Girls in the Classroom
This paper uses national data on eighth grade female students and their English, math and science teachers to examine teacher perceptions of student behavior, such as attentiveness and disruptiveness. Particular attention is paid to differences in perception by student race and socioeconomic status. I find that black female students are perceived as less attentive and more disruptive than their white, Hispanic, and Asian counterparts. Controlling…
Economic Inequality, the Digital Divide, and Remote Learning During Covid-19
Wealth and education establish a cycle of intergenerational inequality. Wealthier households can provide more educational opportunities for their children, who then will have more chances to build wealth for themselves. The digital divide may have emerged as a key reinforcing mechanism of education through wealth and of future wealth through education during the pandemic. The intergenerational transmission of racial wealth inequality likely playe…
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Teacher Perceptions of Black Girls in the Classroom
This paper uses national data on eighth grade female students and their English, math and science teachers to examine teacher perceptions of student behavior, such as attentiveness and disruptiveness. Particular attention is paid to differences in perception by student race and socioeconomic status. I find that black female students are perceived as less attentive and more disruptive than their white, Hispanic, and Asian counterparts. Controlling…
Separate and Unequal Under One Roof
In this article, we use administrative data from three cohorts of North Carolina public high school students to examine the effects of within-school segregation on the propensity of academically eligible black high school students to take advanced math courses. Our identification strategy takes advantage of cohort-to-cohort variation in the share of eleventh and twelfth grade black students enrolled in advanced math courses when a cohort first en…
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
Isolation
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Teacher Perceptions of Black Girls in the Classroom
This paper uses national data on eighth grade female students and their English, math and science teachers to examine teacher perceptions of student behavior, such as attentiveness and disruptiveness. Particular attention is paid to differences in perception by student race and socioeconomic status. I find that black female students are perceived as less attentive and more disruptive than their white, Hispanic, and Asian counterparts. Controlling…
Isolation
Stable School Integration
Separate and Unequal Under One Roof
In this article, we use administrative data from three cohorts of North Carolina public high school students to examine the effects of within-school segregation on the propensity of academically eligible black high school students to take advanced math courses. Our identification strategy takes advantage of cohort-to-cohort variation in the share of eleventh and twelfth grade black students enrolled in advanced math courses when a cohort first en…
Economic Inequality, the Digital Divide, and Remote Learning During Covid-19
Wealth and education establish a cycle of intergenerational inequality. Wealthier households can provide more educational opportunities for their children, who then will have more chances to build wealth for themselves. The digital divide may have emerged as a key reinforcing mechanism of education through wealth and of future wealth through education during the pandemic. The intergenerational transmission of racial wealth inequality likely playe…
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
Racial differences in the relationship between the receipt of informal financial support and social insurance
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the reliance on informal financial support and social insurance programs such as unemployment insurance to meet financial hardships imposed during the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. We use the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to compare the likelihood of receiving informal financial support from family and friends for households that did or did not receive social insurance…
Impacts of Climate Hazards on Employment and Earnings by Hazard Type, Industry, Race, and Ethnicity
We examine the relationship between climate-related disasters and subsequent county-level aggregate employment and earnings. We combine earnings and employment data from 2000 to 2023 with data on disasters to estimate local projection impulse response functions relating extreme disaster events to cumulative percent changes in employment and earnings. On average, disasters appear to reduce employment growth three to five years post disaster. There…
Restaurant Advertising Expenditure Patterns in US Counties by Race, Ethnicity, and Income
Recent growth in the share of household dollars spent on food consumed outside the home, in combination with growing obesity disparities, has heightened interest in food advertising by geography and population demographics. This study aimed to identify changes in advertising expenditure by US restaurant chains across counties, grouped by income, race, and ethnicity, specifically examining whether the lowest income and highest percentage of Black …
Sociology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)