@conference {1634729,
	title = {"Discrimination and State Capacity: Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment."},
	booktitle = {Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)},
	year = {2022},
	address = {Cambridge, MA},
	abstract = {
	This paper investigates the empirical relationship between inclusion and state ca- pacity, as theorized by Besley and Persson (2009). We examine the impact of racial discrimination on Black U.S. military enlistment during the onset of WWII. We find that discrimination had a large and negative effect on volunteer enlistment after the Pearl Harbor attack. The result is robust to a large number of controls that account for potential confounders. The negative effect of discrimination is moderated by geograph- ical proximity to Pearl Harbor, and is larger for educated men. We provide consistent evidence for Japanese Americans.

},
	author = {Qian, Nancy and Marco Tabellini}
}
