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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties …, 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 …
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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...
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Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Humphreys, Brad R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages and employment in labor markets. However, the...
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official statistics that directly identify the...
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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Mundra, Kusum; Sharma, Amarendra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in...
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