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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of SlaveryGraziella BertocchiUniversità di Modena; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Arcangelo Dimicoaffiliation not provided to SSRN December 2011 CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8711 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.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 28 Keywords: development, education, inequality, race, slavery JEL Classification: I24, J15, N31, O11 working papers seriesDate posted: December 22, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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