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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 27.
Published in final edited form as: Q J Econ. 2010;125(4):1627–1682. doi: 10.1162/qjec.2010.125.4.1627

Table IX.

Historical Determinants of Current Inequality

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent Var. Gini Coefficient
Standard deviation of statehist .456***
(.088)		 .408***
(.084)
Ancestry adjusted statehist −.148***
(.036)
Standard deviation of agyears .0512***
(.0121)		 .0571***
(.0108)
Ancestry adjusted agyears −.0217***
(.0052)
Standard deviation of
 Source Region Coefficients		 .0207
(.0166)		 .0453***
(.0153)
Mean Source Region Coefficient −.0743***
(.0089)
Constant .375***
(.014)		 .445***
(.024)		 .381***
(.014)		 .493***
(.031)		 .413***
(.011)		 .498***
(.016)
No. obs. 135 135 140 140 141 141
R-squared .140 .267 .108 .260 .018 .365

Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses.

***

p<.01,

**

p<.05,

*

p<.1