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Emigration During the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphael - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945603
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Post-War Economic Growth in the Group-of-Five Countries : a New Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Lau, Lawrence J. - 2021
Group-of-Five (G-5) countries: France, West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United states. It is assumed that all … France, West Germany and Japan, and between 8 and 10 percent per annum for the U.K. and the U.S. for the period under study …, the productive efficiencies of France, West Germany and Japan rose rapidly from less than 40 percent of the U.S. level in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216118
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218517
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Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region : Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
Mancall, Peter C. - 2011
We employ the conjectural approach to estimate the growth of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the mid-Atlantic region (Del., NJ, NY and Penn). In contrast to previous studies of the region's growth that relied heavily on the performance of the export sector, the conjectural method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122468
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert - 2007
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778235
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Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232422
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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development
Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239197
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Equilibrium Fictions : a Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147216
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Institutions, Human Capital and Development
Acemoglu, Daron; Gallego, Francisco A.; Robinson, James A. - 2016
In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006662