| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24190 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24190 |
| Do Black Politicians Matter? | |
| Trevon D. Logan | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-01-08 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral preferences and black representation using the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an instrument for black political leaders during Reconstruction. IV estimates show that an additional black official increased per capita county tax revenue by $0.20, more than an hour's wage at the time. The effect was not persistent, however, disappearing entirely at Reconstruction's end. Consistent with the stated policy objectives of black officials, I find positive effects of black politicians on land tenancy and show that exposure to black politicians decreased the black-white literacy gap by more than 7%. These results suggest that politician race has large effects on public finance and individual outcomes over and above electoral preferences for redistribution. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24190 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581863 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Trevon D. Logan. Do Black Politicians Matter?. 2018. |
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