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Table 6 Slavery and the racial educational gap, USA, 1940–2000

From: The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Estimation method: pooled OLS

Dependent variables

 

High-school gap

Bachelor gap

Slaves/population 1860

4.404***

4.105***

 

(5.36)

(3.56)

Observations

258

258

R-squared

0.65

0.43

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