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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 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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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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The labor market effects of payroll taxes in a middle-income country : evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); … - 2003

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Factor adjustments after deregulation : panel evidence from Colombian plants

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kugler, Adriana D.; … - 2005

In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for … investment. Moreover, we find that the market oriented reforms introduced in Colombia after 1990 increased employment adjustments … efficiency, the reforms introduced in Colombia generated only modest improvements. -- joint factor adjustment ; irreversibilities …

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