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Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors : Evidence from Colonial West Africa

Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Mabeu, Marie Christelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the largest labor reservoir in West Africa by the French colonial authorities. Hundreds of thousands of young men were...

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One Giant Leap : Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains

Hornbeck, Richard; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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

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Prison Labor : The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Archibong, Belinda; Obikili, Nonso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are primarily used as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized 65...

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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating

Dippel, Christian - 2015

In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers' outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies--e.g. the eviction and...

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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...

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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880 - 1990

Costa, Dora L. - 1998

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Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s ; [papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009]

Irwin, Douglas A. (contributor); … - 2011

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Wages and labor markets in the United States : 1820 - 1860

Margo, Robert A. - 2000

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Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs

Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Penology in the Jim Crow South centered on the chain gang. Gangs ostensibly served three purposes: their severity served as a deterrent; their putting convicts to work on roads and other public improvements reduced the taxpayers' costs of infrastructure; and their discriminatory implementation...

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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; García Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, … - 2012

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

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