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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1994

Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … of the manufacturing belt in and around Mexico City and the formation of broadly specialized industry centers located in … northern Mexico, relatively close to the United States. The North American Free Trade Agreement is likely to reinforce these …

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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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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it would appear that a deal could have been reached to share...

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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Chaves, Isaías N.; Robinson, James Alan; … - 2014

A fundamental problem for economic development is that most poor countries have 'weak state' which are incapable or unwilling to provide basic public goods such as law enforcement, order, education and infrastructure. In Africa this is often attributed to the persistence of 'indirect rule' from...

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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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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence

Clingingsmith, David - 2004

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. Other local industries also suffered some decline, and India underwent secular...

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Historical Legacies and African Development

Michalopulos, Stelios - 2018

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …

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Latin American Inequality : Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling?

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015

Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy have held the pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, and that it's the Iberian colonists' fault. Thus, modern analysts see today a more unequal Latin America...

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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 …

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The European Origins of Economic Development

Easterly, William - 2012

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...

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