Table 5.
Relationship between County Level Socio-Economic Outcomes and Railroad Concentration in the Deep South
| Literacy Rate |
School Attendance among Children Aged 6–12 |
School Attendance among Children Aged 13–18 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Black | White | Black | White | Black | White |
| 1910 | 0.056*** (0.019) |
0.051*** (0.012) |
0.060* (0.031) |
0.033 (0.023) |
0.073** (0.033) |
−0.003 (0.029) |
| 1920 | 0.039* (0.021) |
0.022** (0.010) |
0.048 (0.032) |
0.053*** (0.018) |
0.067** (0.034) |
0.001 (0.026) |
| 1930 | 0.036* (0.019) |
0.012 (0.008) |
0.002 (0.030) |
0.034** (0.016) |
0.049 (0.034) |
0.017 (0.025) |
Source: Authors’ calculations: dependent variables are calculated using the U.S. Census IPUMS and railroad concentration is calculated using Duke SSA/Medicare data as described in footnote 14. These are county-level regressions for the Deep South (including all counties for which data elements are available; n = 368 to n = 418), and include State fixed effects. Standard errors are in parentheses
***
significance at the 0.01 level
**
significance at the 0.05 level; and
*
significance at the 0.10 level.