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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
previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556669
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Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification
Marteleto, Leticia - In: Demography 49 (2012) 1, pp. 337-358
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010557687
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Race v. Suffrage. The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
- 2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …
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The racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 581-595
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010588365
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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168626
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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
previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084306
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891747
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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 … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371379
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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?
Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581786
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The impact of taxes and transfers of poverty and income distribution in South Africa 2014/2015
Goldman, Maya; Woolard, Ingrid; Jellema, Jon - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695632