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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...

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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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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants

López, Ricardo A; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of crossindustry spillovers in...

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The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990–2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...

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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …

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Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile

Kruger, Diana; Berthelon, Matias; Navia, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …

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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana; Berthelon, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …

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