exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use …, slavery, and polygyny occurred where land was most suitable for agriculture, and where population density was greatest. These … theories of slavery. …

social characteristics of ethnic groups in Africa. We find that the duration of colonial rule caused a dramatic shift in … gender roles in Africa by increasing the relative status of men in lineage and inheritance systems but also reducing polygyny …

Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the …

particular, the basic results are not affected by the inclusion of a dummy for Sub-Saharan Africa. …

institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …

trade and slavery have evolved into a “modern” business, especially under the forms of compulsory labour and sexual …