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Ed at 16:48, 29 September 2020

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imported>Bo: /* Can you think of any alternative empirical tests? */

2011-06-08T21:52:59Z

Can you think of any alternative empirical tests?

imported>Bo at 21:40, 7 June 2011

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imported>Bo at 21:39, 7 June 2011

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imported>Bo: /* Can you think of any alternative empirical tests? */

2011-06-07T18:49:25Z

Can you think of any alternative empirical tests?

imported>Bo at 18:42, 7 June 2011

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	==Empirical Questions==		==Empirical Questions==
	===What's the author's research question and hypothesis?===		===What's the author's research question and hypothesis?===

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	Note a few tweaks above to this analysis involving a different type of matching. Similarly, one could use p-score matching to match counties.		Note a few tweaks above to this analysis involving a different type of matching. Similarly, one could use p-score matching to match counties.
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		+	Is there randomness in the timing of compliance with the state-level disenfranchisement law?

	One could also do a similar analysis around the times that the disenfranchisement was rolled back.		One could also do a similar analysis around the times that the disenfranchisement was rolled back.

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 ==Empirical Questions==
-===What's the author's hypothesis?===
+===What's the author's research question and hypothesis?===
-The null hypothesis of the empirical section is that the disenfranchisement of Southern blacks (through poll taxes and literacy tests) had no effect on
+The author is studying the effect of  disenfranchisement of Southern blacks (through poll taxes and literacy tests) on:
 * (a) Voter turnout,
 * (b) The Democratic party vote share,
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 * (f) Migration of blacks.
-The author does not give a sense of his priors, but he does say that his findings (all null hypotheses rejected except for (d)) are "[C]onsistent with historical evidence that these disenfranchisement laws independently lowered black political participation."
+... in the counties/states where this disenfranchisement was implemented.
 In particular, the author notes that the fall in black educational inputs (ie, the teacher/student ratio) is consistent with theoretical political economy models including the one developed later in this paper.

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 * (d) The teacher/child ratio for whites.
 * (e) Land values in counties with the poll taxes and literacy tests.
-The author does not give a sense of his priors, but he does say that his findings (null hypotheses rejected for (a) through (c)) are "[C]onsistent with historical evidence that these disenfranchisement laws independently lowered black political participation."
+The author does not give a sense of his priors, but he does say that his findings (all null hypotheses rejected except for (d)) are "[C]onsistent with historical evidence that these disenfranchisement laws independently lowered black political participation."
-In particular, the author notes that the fall in black educational inputs (ie, the teacher/student ratio) is consistent with theoretical political economy models including the one developed late in this paper.
+In particular, the author notes that the fall in black educational inputs (ie, the teacher/student ratio) is consistent with theoretical political economy models including the one developed later in this paper.
 All of this is on page 2 and 3 of the paper.
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 ===What do the tests achieve?===
-The tests reject the null hypotheses (a)-(e) listed above. With additional disenfranchisement laws:
+The tests reject all null hypotheses listed above except for (d). With additional disenfranchisement laws:
 * (a) Voter turnout in all elections decreases. Presidential turnout decreases by 8%-11% and gubernatorial turnout decreases by 23%. ~10%-12% decrease in Congressional election turnout, less precisely estimated.
 * (b) The Democratic party vote share increases. 5.8% increase in Democratic presidential share, and 10% increase in congressional Democratic share. Positive but insignificant effects on gubernatorial Dem voteshare. Discussion, pg 26.
 * (c) The teacher/child ratio for blacks decreases by 50% (!).
 * (d) The teacher/child ratio for whites don't change (bottom of pg 27).
-* (e) Land values in counties increase.
+* (e) Land values in counties increase by 7%, and the number of farms increase by 6%.
 ===How could the tests be improved?===
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 Note a few tweaks above to this analysis involving a different type of matching. Similarly, one could use p-score matching to match counties.

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	===Can you think of any alternative empirical tests?===		===Can you think of any alternative empirical tests?===
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		+	Note a few tweaks above to this analysis involving a different type of matching. Similarly, one could use p-score matching to match counties.