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White discrimination in provision of black education: Plantations and towns

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  • Canaday, Neil
  • Tamura, Robert

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We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white yeoman-town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of regimes to discriminate. The model produces time series of educational outcomes for whites and blacks that mimic the behavior seen in Post Reconstruction South Carolina to the onset of the Civil Rights Act. It also fits the Post World War II black-white income differentials.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Volume (Year): 33 (2009)
Issue (Month): 7 (July)
Pages: 1490-1530

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Handle: RePEc:eee:dyncon:v:33:y:2009:i:7:p:1490-1530

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Keywords: Discrimination Education Development Income convergence;

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  1. Tamura, Robert & Simon, Curtis & Murphy, Kevin M., 2012. "Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights," MPRA Paper 40921, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Turner, Chad & Tamura, Robert & Mulholland, Sean, 2008. "Productivity differences: the importance of intra-state black-white schooling differences across the United States, 1840-2000," MPRA Paper 7718, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Turner, Chad & Tamura, Robert & Mulholland, Sean, 2008. "How important are human capital, physical capital and total factor productivity for determining state economic growth in the United States: 1840-2000?," MPRA Paper 7715, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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