Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Elizabeth U. Cascio, Ebonya L. Washington

NBER Working Paper No. 17776
Issued in January 2012, Revised in August 2012

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We thank Bill Fischel, Alan Gerber, Claudia Goldin, Naomi Lamoreaux, Ethan Lewis, Sendhil Mullainathan, Gavin Wright and seminar participants at Dartmouth College, Hunter College and the University of Miami for helpful conversations in preparation of this draft. Cascio gratefully acknowledges research support from Dartmouth College, and Washington gratefully acknowledges research support from the National Science Foundation. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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