Black Populations and Economic Growth: An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Mississippi County-Level Data

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Black Populations and Economic Growth: An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Mississippi County-Level Data

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Young, Andrew
Higgins, Matthew
Levy, Daniel

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We use Mississippi county-level data on (per capita) income and the percentages of populations that are Black (henceforth "Black") to examine the relationship between race and economic growth. The analysis is also conditioned on 40 other economic and socio-demographic variables. Given a negative and statistically significant partial correlation between income growth and Black, we ask if it is robust to exhaustive combinations of other conditioning variables (taken 3 at a time). The evidence suggests yes. Since even robust correlation does not imply causation, we then ask if other robust correlates with income growth play a roll in accounting for Black in the data. The answer “yes” is obtained for only one other robust correlate of the "right" sign: the percentage of a population that is below the poverty level.

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- Matthew J. Higgins & Daniel Levy & Andrew T. Young, 2007. "Black Populations and Economic Growth: An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Mississippi County-Level Data," Emory Economics 0701, Department of Economics, Emory University (Atlanta). [Downloadable!]

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O40 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
O11 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
R11 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Analysis of Growth, Development, and Changes

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