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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Nunn, Nathan; Wantchekon, Leonard - 2021

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2010

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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Fertility and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....

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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa

Bellora, Cecilia - 2017

Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Günther - 2018

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...

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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity differences across countries using high-resolution...

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Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets : Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields Around the World

Costinot, Arnaud - 2015

A large agronomic literature models the implications of climate change for a variety of crops and locations around the world. The goal of the present paper is to quantify the macro-level consequences of these micro-level shocks. Using an extremely rich micro-level dataset that contains...

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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers

Loos, Benjamin; Meyer, Steffen; Pagel, Michaela - 2022

We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals’ portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...

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