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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671740
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010
slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303446
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625856
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Race v. Suffrage. The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
- 2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283205
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De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power:Evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012
We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556669
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development. In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150878
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937192
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International Migration and the Role of Institutions
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2008
than economic and demographic fundamentals. We evaluate the impact of political institutions and of those institutions … differentials play a major role, but that the quality of institutions also matter. We produce evidence that both political and … migration institutions represent significant factors of attraction, even after controlling for their potential endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181827
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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580542
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387949