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Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties …, 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 …

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two...

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Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol Hua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Current orthodoxy suggests that the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because European institutions promoted comparatively high levels of market efficiency. This Paper compares the actual efficiency of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the...

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

industrialization transforms the economic landscape. …

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The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper argues that an economy's transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth requires markets to reach a critical size, and competition to reach a critical level of intensity. By allowing an economy to produce a greater variety of goods, a larger market makes goods more...

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Patience Capital and the Demise of the Aristocracy

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

profit from new opportunities arising with industrialization, and were thus surpassed by industrialists rising from the …

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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs

Baldwin, Richard; Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

-Industrial-Revolution phenomena – the industrialization and growth take-off of rich ‘northern’ nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …

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Why are a Third of People Indian and Chinese? Trade, Industrialization and Demographic Transition

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This research argues that international trade has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of sustained differences in population growth and income levels...

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