initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. -- race ; inequality … ; education ; slavery ; development …We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …

slavery affects inequality (like Bertocchi and Dimico, 2014), white Americans’ political attitudes towards race (like Acharya …This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violent crime in the USA. Although qualitative … evidence suggests that slavery perpetuated violence, there has been no large-N study supporting this claim. Using county …

This paper documents the emergence of a race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Counties …

channels of transmission between slavery and violent crime: inequality, a culture of violence, and ethnic fractionalization …This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violence in the USA. Although considerable … qualitative evidence suggests that slavery has been a key factor behind the prevalence of violence, especially in Southern USA …

We examine the social construction of race during the United States' Reconstruction Era, a critical juncture between … slavery and Jim Crow segregation. We show that people with the same detailed skin tone, recorded by the Freedman's Bank (1865 … the construction - or rather, reconstruction - of race in a period of unfulfilled potential for social transformation …

in a linked panel of full-count US census data. Exposure to CS laws led to comparable increases in education levels for … sorting into higher education and higher income occupations) ii) assortative mating on education, and iii) geographic mobility …