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Local Public Goods and Jim Crow

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  • Dennis Halcoussis
  • Anton D. Lowenberg

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Labor market discrimination and racial segregation can be viewed as part of a more general tendency for residents of a community to limit the community's size or its factor-ownership composition. Statutory segregation is motivated not only by racial prejudice, but also by a desire to maximize factor incomes and the average net benefit obtained from local-public-goods consumption. Race is one of many possible devices that might be used to distinguish community members from non-members. Predictions for racial discrimination and segregation derived from this local-public-goods approach are tested with data from the Jim Crow era.

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  • Dennis Halcoussis & Anton D. Lowenberg, 1998. "Local Public Goods and Jim Crow," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 154(4), pages 599-599, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(199812)154:4_599:lpgajc_2.0.tx_2-t
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    1. Gagnon, Julien & Geloso, Vincent & Isabelle, Maripier, 2023. "The incubated revolution: Education, cohort effects, and the linguistic wage gap in Quebec during the 20th century," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 207(C), pages 327-349.
    2. Ramon P. DeGennaro & Daniel J. Smith, 2023. "Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 197(3), pages 317-324, December.
    3. Phillip W. Magness, 2020. "The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 183(3), pages 417-441, June.
    4. Donna Driscoll & Dennis Halcoussis & Anton D. Lowenberg, 2010. "Explaining Local Growth-Management Policies: The Role of Public Goods," American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Science Publications, vol. 2(1), pages 45-55, March.

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    JEL classification:

    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
    • N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-

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