In the growing literature on the creation of institutions, the theories emphasizing colonial origin ( <link rid="b37">Mauro, 1995</link>), legal origin and religious affiliation ( <link rid="b34">La Porta et al., 1999</link>), Western European influence ( <link rid="b21">Hall and Jones, 1999</link>), and settler mortality ( <link rid="b2">Acemoglu et al., 2001</link>), have been...