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

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 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 Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386367

Estimation and Simulation of Earnings in IT-SILC

Ciani, Emanuele; Morciano, Marcello - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

This paper describes income distribution among workers in Italy using both the cross-sectional and panel component of IT-SILC. We highlight advantages and drawbacks of different econometric approaches, comparing standard OLS estimates with those obtained from Random Effects and Poisson Maximum...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319017

Race v. Suffrage The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319018

Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 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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The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency

Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and ine¢ ciency-averse agents responding to …

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Inequality and poverty during the recession in Italy

Baldini, Massimo; Ciani, Emanuele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

This paper simulates the effects of the recent economic crisis on income inequality and poverty in Italy. We impute the …

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Race v. Suffrage. The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283205

Sostegno del reddito e lotta alla povertà in Italia: le politiche pubbliche in tempo di crisi

Baldini, Massimo; Toso, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013

This paper reviews the impact on the distribution of households’ living standards (in terms of occupation, inequality …

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

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851303