We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …'s economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus … Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in …

Africa, home to some of the world's largest Christian and Muslim communities. First, we use census data from 20 countries to …

We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …