1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

In recent theories of comparative development the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet what explains … homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development which is conventional … development are conditional on the form that political competition takes in society. Endowments are not fate. …

, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …

comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development within countries. Using … countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern …

start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we … with development. As we discuss, these spatial dynamics often mask important differences across sectors. We then turn our … development, we draw on empirical evidence from both the historical evolution of today's developed economies and comparisons …