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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe : For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …

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Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rocha, Rudi - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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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 …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016389

The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …

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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition : Evidence from Colonial India

Cassan, Guilhem - 2020

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in...

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Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia

Nikolova, Elena - 2016

We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia's liberal institutions...

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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...

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Unexpected Colonial Returns : Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants Over Multiple Generations

Gielen, Anne C.; Webbink, H. Dinand - 2023

A ban on migration from Suriname, a former Dutch colony, to the Netherlands induced a mass migration and changed the selection of migrants. We exploit this historical episode to study the relationship between the self-selection of migrants and their long-term economic integration over three...

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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan

Chang, Simon - 2011

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...

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