If these Universities really were interested in finding the answer to this problem, they would would do a study of family and working life of black prior to the 1960s then compare it today. Prior to the 1960s, the rate of birth out of wedlock for blacks and whites were similar. There was a thriving black middle class in many of the big cities.
The Civil Right laws of the 1960s were correct, and long over due, but they had some unintended consequences.
If you are driving along a lonely road, and you are coming up to an intersection with a stop sign but you can see both left and right for miles, and there is no traffic coming, do you stop?
Most do. Why? Because we obey laws and rules even when no one is watching. How do we get like that? Simple, we were taught from a young age. First by our families, right and wrong behaviour, then in school, and later in life.
There are many laws, and many social rules that we obey without even thinking about it. We were "programmed" to do certain things.
But what happens when we do not receives such feed back from our family, and later society. What happens when we discover we can act out with little or no consequences?
Without self restraint, which is a virtue that is taught, we are not born with it, quite the contrary, it is our instinct to do what pleases us.
Along with the Civil Rights movement came a companion, the idea that every action by a white person towards a black was racist in nature. The unintended consequences of this movement was that any critism of a black person by a white person made the white person a racist. Not wishing to be labeled a racist, critism was muted, and then ended.
This was soon expanded so that any negative act against a black was percieved as rascist. It has gotten to the point today that whites can not even discuss the issues of blacks in America without being labeled racist.
And so the problems between Blacks and Whites can not be resolved because there is only one safe mode of dialog, and that a one way conversation, blacks towards white.
If we can not have an open and public discussion, if misdeeds or bad behaviour can not be pointed out, then there is no hope for a solution.
The advise I would have for a young black man in America today is the same I would give to a young white (yellow, red, green or purple) man, it is the same and not based on color.
1. Stay in school
2. Learn to speak well
3. Learn to read and write english
4. The golden rule (treat others as you wish to be treated)
5. Be willing to do any job you can get, work hard, and you will be rewarded
6. Wait until you are married to have children
Thomas Sowell has done such studies as you have suggested. The results clearly show how liberalism/welfare has destroyed the black family.