OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided during the slave trades. Since … the slave trades retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness has also had a historical indirect … for Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we also provide …

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with …

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …

systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 - 1900 … three potential mechanisms linking the slave trade to modern finance--information sharing institutions, trust in financial … institutions, and the quality of legal institutions. We discover that the slave trade is strongly, negatively related to the …

-colonial Africa's largest policy experiments -- the Tanzanian Ujamaa policy -- which attempted to address these challenges. Ujamaa …

growth. Starchy food supplements given soon after birth and poor sanitation surrounding feeding provided a poor environment … for growth during the first year of life …

too low. The poor health and stature of children and the relatively large size of slave adults is a pattern of growth and …