Table 3.

Contrast estimates for party control in state legislatures and the governor’s party on logged state race-specific IMR

Contrast	Estimate	LnWIMR	LnBIMR	Racial Gap
	Legislature Transitions
All Dem to Lower House Rep	Coeff	.014	.041	.029
	p-value	.295	.339	.410
	95% CI	−.013 – .041	−.044 – .126	−.041 – .099
All Dem to Upper House Rep	Coeff	.018	.040	.022
	p-value	.208	.007	.122
	95% CI	−.011 – .047	.011 – .069	−.006 – .049
All Dem to Both Houses Rep	Coeff	.026	.059	.033
	p-value	.030	.021	.079
	95% CI	.003 – .049	.009 – .109	−.004 – .069
	Governor Transitions
All Dem to Governor Rep	Coeff	.004	.001	−.002
	p-value	.525	.897	.766
	95% CI	−.009 – .017	−.021 – .024	−.018 – .013
	Legislatures and Governor Transitions
All Dem to All Rep	Coeff	.030	.061	.030
	p-value	.008	.014	.132
	95% CI	.008 – .052	.013 – .109	−.009 – .070

Note: All effects are derived from estimates of equation 1. The standard errors are clustered at the state level to account for arbitrary forms of within state serial correlations. “Racial Gap” refers to LnBIMR – LnWIMR. All regressions are weighted using time-constant, averaged total number of Black births in the states. The sample comprises the 32 states with enough Black population to retrieve reliable IMRs. Controls are females average age, unemployment rate, the birth rate, and time and state fixed effects. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p<0.05).