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dc.contributor.authorBertocchi, Graziellaen
dc.contributor.authorDimico, Arcangeloen
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-24-
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-15T07:58:04Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-15T07:58:04Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-201201104129en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/58925-
dc.description.abstractWe study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently 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 from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Using the same approach we also find that income growth is negatively affected by the initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x6192en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelI24en
dc.subject.jelN31en
dc.subject.jelO11en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordraceen
dc.subject.keywordinequalityen
dc.subject.keywordeducationen
dc.subject.keywordslaveryen
dc.subject.keyworddevelopmenten
dc.subject.stwEthnische Gruppeen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Ungleichheiten
dc.subject.stwSklavereien
dc.subject.stwBildungsverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwEinkommenen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleThe evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn697266613en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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