Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6017

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913 ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
• Thema: race ; institutions ; development ; inequality ; education ; Wahlrecht ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Bildungsverhalten ; Entwicklung ; Geschichte ; USA (Südstaaten)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bertocchi, Graziella ; Dimico, Arcangelo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55092
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263558
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ