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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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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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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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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...
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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron - 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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