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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

in the study. The study adopted the Anti-Slavery International research toolkit, which sets methodological guidelines on … instances of forced labor and/or modern slavery. Policies should ensure that beggar children are removed from harm's way, and …

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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024

We model a rent-seeking contest among two "identity ideologues", differentially located along a uni-dimensional identity continuum, and a "mercenary", who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity-relevant good ("religion") and an identity-irrelevant good...

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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery … research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

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Migration to Australia, the transition from sail to steam, and the SS Great Britain

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2025

The transition from sail to steam for emigrant ships on the route to Australia took place in the early 1880s, nearly two decades later than on the route across the Atlantic. The lag can be accounted for by the incremental improvement in steam technology and by aspects of economic and business...

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The supply of child labour

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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For better or for worse : the long-term effects of postwar reconstruction on family formation

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2013

This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term legacies of postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's family formation outcomes such as marriage, age at first marriage and divorce. We exploit city-by-cohort variation in the intensity of World War II reconstruction in...

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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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 …

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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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