We re-characterize American slavery as inefficient, whereby emancipation generated substantial aggregate economic gains …

-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests …

affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …

We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults … more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation … accumulating above median wealth. We identified elevated sugar consumption across lifespan as a likely pathway of impact …

, slavery wealth is strongly correlated with economic development - slave-holding areas are less agricultural, closer to cotton … mills, and have higher property wealth. We rationalize these findings using a dynamic spatial model, where slavery … overseas slave wealth. Overall, our findings are consistent with the view that slavery wealth accelerated Britain's industrial …

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and … phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity …, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation …