In this paper, the author presents a statistical test of the hypothesis that Protestantism is positively associated with economic growth. The author also investigates whether religion can help to explain why ex-Spanish and French colonies have significantly lower economic growth than ex-British...

In this paper, a simultaneous model of the evolution of human and physical capital in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated. It can be shown that the two types of capital are jointly endogenous, in that increases in human capital significantly raise the per-worker physical capital stock, and increases...