Search Results - subject:"Slave trades"

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno-Cruz, Juan - 2018

Columbus’s arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...

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Maize and precolonial Africa

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018

Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845203

Maize and precolonial Africa

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - In: Journal of development economics 136 (2019), pp. 137-150

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The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

still present and significant. Thus, I show that the slave trades affected development through channels other than inter …

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Dispersion and Distortions in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Dalton, John; Leung, Tin Cheuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper documents the variation in economic characteristics across voyages during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Dispersion in output, measured as slaves disembarked, is highest across Portuguese voyages, lower across French voyages, and lowest across British voyages. We use a structural...

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Why is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western Africa?: An African Slave Trade Perspective

Dalton, John T.; Leung, Tin Cheuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Polygyny rates are higher in Western Africa than in Eastern Africa. The African slave trades explain this difference …. More male slaves were exported in the trans-Atlantic slave trades from Western Africa, while more female slaves were … exported in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea slave trades from Eastern Africa. The slave trades led to prolonged periods of …

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The impact of the slave trade on literacy in West Africa : evidence from the colonial era

Obikili, Nonso - In: Journal of African economies 25 (2016) 1, pp. 1-27

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Dispersion and distortions in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Dalton, John T.; Tin Cheuk Leung - In: Journal of international economics 96 (2015) 2, pp. 412-425

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Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2007

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided during the slave trades. Since … the slave trades retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness has also had a historical indirect … provide evidence that the indirect effect operates through the slave trades. …

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Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at terrain ruggedness, we are able to estimate the importance of these two channels. Because rugged terrain hinders...

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