Borcan, Oana; Olsson, Ola; Putterman, Louis - 2014
states. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on state history and long-run economic development in four ways. First …, we extend and complete the state history index from Bockstette, Chanda and Putterman (2002) by coding the experience with … since transition to agriculture and state age, as well as subsequent state history. Our estimated unconditional correlation …