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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …

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De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...

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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort

Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...

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Participation in Paid Work: Multiple Regression Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...

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