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ReviewNature human behaviour2025

A framework and policy case for black reparations to support child well-being in the USA.

Lisa A Gennetian, Christina Gibson-Davis, William A Darity

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Review in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Lisa A GennetianSanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. lisa.gennetian@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4639-7547
Christina Gibson-DavisSanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
William A DaritySanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enslavement of African Americans and the legacy of structural racism have led to disproportionate hardship for black people in the USA. Reparations realize unfulfilled promises of financial compensation and redress. Existing US reparations initiatives have not yet included financial transfers or investments in black families or children, which a survey shows black parents support. We offer a three-pronged approach of child-specific, family-level and systemic educational and information renumeration via a child-centric reparations framework. Mechanisms for such government transfers have precedent in the USA but face limitations in that their broader implementation would also require political will. Such wealth transfers may address economically meaningful differences that persist between black and white children's outcomes at nearly every developmental stage from infancy to young adulthood and long-standing racial wealth differences among US households with children.

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Black or African AmericanChild WelfareRacismAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolHumansUnited StatesWhite

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PMID40307434

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