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Table 5 Slavery and measures of inequality, USA, 2000

From: The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Estimation method: OLS

Dependent variables

 

Income inequality

Racial inequality

Population below poverty

Slaves/population 1860

0.0374***

0.178***

0.0575***

 

(7.42)

(26.33)

(6.40)

Observations

1984

1984

1984

R-squared

0.31

0.40

0.32

  1. Robust t statistics in parentheses. Additional controls: population density in 1860, dummies for North East, South Atlantic, and slave states. The source of the dataset is Bertocchi and Dimico (2010)
  2. ***p < 0.01