COVID-19 Pandemic as an Equalizer of the Health Returns of Educational Attainment for Black and White Americans.
Arash RahmaniBabak NajandNajmeh MaharloueiHossein ZareShervin AssariPublished in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2023)
COVID-19 may have operated as an equalizer of the returns of educational attainment. This observation may be because White may have more to lose; Black communities may be more resilient or have economic and social policies that buffered unemployment and poverty regardless of historical anti-Black oppression.