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| Title: | | Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi  |
| Authors: | | Bertocchi, Graziella Dimico, Arcangelo |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6017 |
| Abstract: | | 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 education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force driving the above outcomes. |
| Subjects: | | race institutions development inequality education |
| JEL: | | E25 H52 J15 N31 O11 P16 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263558 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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