Data di Pubblicazione:
2011
Citazione:
Bertocchi, G. e A., Dimico. "The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery" Working paper, RECENT WORKING PAPER SERIES, Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi – Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2011.
Abstract:
We 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.
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.
Tipologia CRIS:
Working paper
Keywords:
Race, inequality, education, slavery, development
Elenco autori:
Bertocchi, G.; Dimico, A.
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