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The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans

Jamein P. Cunningham, Rob Gillezeau
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 144-157; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.07
Jamein P. Cunningham
Assistant professor of economics in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis
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vol. 4 no. 6 144-157
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.07

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  • Published online September 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Cunningham, Jamein P., and Rob Gillezeau. 2018. “The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(6): 144–57. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.07. This project was generously supported by an NICHD center grant to the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan (R24 HD041028). The authors would like to thank William Collins and Robert Margo for sharing their data. Direct correspondence to: Jamein P. Cunningham at jamein.p.cunningham@memphis.edu, University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, 3675 Central Ave., Memphis, TN 38152; and Rob Gillezeau at gillezr@uvic.ca, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, 3800 Finnerty Rd., Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Jamein P. Cunningham and
  2. Rob Gillezeau
  1. Assistant professor of economics in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis
  2. Assistant professor of economics at the University of Victoria
  1. Correspondence author:
    Jamein P. Cunningham at jamein.p.cunningham{at}memphis.edu and Rob Gillezeauat gillezr{at}uvic.ca
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