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We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...
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underpin them. The paper emphasizes the importance of local knowledge' and argues that a strategy of institution building must … most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …
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