Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309164 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 24-13
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Abstract: 
This paper examines the reported race of multiracial persons in the US Current Population Survey (CPS) before 2003, when limited response options exogenously constrained respondents to identify as a single race. Using this survey attribute and the 16-month longitudinal design of the basic monthly CPS, I explore whether market factors help causally determine racial identity. I find that pre-2003 race responds to state-level (1) racial composition, due largely to household composition, and (2) unemployment rates and wages by race. Although these findings suggest potential endogeneity of race, estimation of how race affects individual-level labor market outcomes indicates minimal bias.
Subjects: 
Racial identity
multiracial
bias
Current Population Survey
JEL: 
J15
R23
C18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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