Kelly Hunt, 19, disappeared in ANC b/n her village in Western AK and her college. Her remains were recently found.
She is 4th young person from Shaktoolik, an Inupiaq village of ≈210, to die in past few years.
AK Native women are more likely to be raped or murdered than White women. 1 is too many.
On panelView, and why we should always look at our data first..
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Washington, Oregon, California.
New working paper with Adriana Reyes on the link between inter vivos transfers and bequests. Though largely studied separately, bequests are significant because they can either offset between-sibling inequality in financial transfers or exacerbate it. osf.io/preprints/so...
Many of the most egregious issues can be avoided by simply looking at the data.
After Louisiana passed its disfranchising constitution in 1898, voter registration fell 99% among Black voters - and almost 45% among white voters.
(from C Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South)
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On KNBA’s Webcast, hear what many Alaskans didn’t know about Kelly Hunt, the Shaktoolik college student who disappeared in January. Mourned on Saturday, she is remembered by longtime teacher Lynda Bekoalok, as one of the community's best and brightest. www.knba.org/newscasts/20...
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KNBA’S Top Stories: One legislator from Western Alaska says that pain from high fuel costs has an outsized impact on his constituents. The village of Shaktoolik says goodbye to Kelly Hunt, the 19-year...
While past work has found that inter vivos transfers are highly unequal within families, bequests are relatively more equal. In contrast, our results show that, rather than correcting earlier inter vivos inequality, bequests serve to reinforce existing financial inequality between siblings.
