Ellora Derenoncourt is an assistant professor of economics and member of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University and the founding faculty director of the Program for Research on Inequality at Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality. Recently she has studied the northern backlash against the Great Migration and ensuing declines in Black upward mobility, the role of federal minimum wage policy in racial earnings convergence, and the evolution of Black-white wealth gaps. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2019.
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Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap, 1860-2020
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- Economic history 
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