TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bertocchi, Graziella
AU  - Dimico, Arcangelo
        TI  - Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
        PY  - 2011/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6017
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6017
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - race
KW  - institutions
KW  - development
KW  - inequality
KW  - education
        ER  -