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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...
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"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine : The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925
Libecap, Gary D. - 2000
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American agricultural frontier moved for the first time into semi-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and farm sizes to better fit the environment. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471037
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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers
Alston, Lee J. - 2009
We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …
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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2007
accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but …
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The Curley Effect
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning...
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