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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...

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Imperialism and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa : an economic and business history of Sudan

Mollan, Simon - 2020

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. -- cultural assimilation ; cultural diffusion ; cultural diversity …

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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020

This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...

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The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa : the slave trade, polygyny, and sexual behavior

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2015

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...

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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - 2013

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

fundamentals, and extractive institutions such as slavery affect innovative capacity. However, a large effect associated with being …

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