This comes even courtesy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology! Shame on them! The title of the study is also a joke! Most likely this study qualifies as pseudoscience!
For (skin color) ideologues and demagogues, the world is black and white! If you are a one trick pony this is all you have to offer!
As usual and as it is done so frequently these days, they compared apples with oranges (if not worse)! E.g. it appears they did not really compare individuals of same socioeconomic status.
When will this absurd mania of race obsession go away! Soon please!
"... In a paper for the Journal of Urban Economics, a team of researchers examined four decades of national commuting data to better understand how racialized differences in commuting evolved from the 1980s. By gaining clarity [???] about the reasons behind changes, the team extrapolated [???] how spatial and labor inequity is a potential explanation for differences between White and Black commuters. ..."
From the abstract:
"How have the longer journeys to work faced by Black commuters evolved in the United States over the last four decades? Black commuters spent 49 more minutes commuting per week in 1980 than White commuters; this difference declined to 22 minutes per week in 2019. Two factors account for the majority of the difference: Black workers are more likely to commute by transit, and Black workers make up a larger share of the population in cities with long average commutes. Increases in car commuting by Black workers account for nearly one quarter of the decline in the racialized difference in commute times between 1980 and 2019. Today, commute times have mostly converged (conditional on observables) for car commuters in small- and mid-sized cities. In contrast, differential job access today drives persistent differences of commute times, particularly in large, congested, and expensive cities."
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