%0 Report
        %A Bertocchi, Graziella
%A Dimico, Arcangelo
        %T Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6017
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6017
        %X 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.
        %K race
%K institutions
%K development
%K inequality
%K education