presentday institutions, but are also partly independent of institutional quality. <p> …

the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude degrees is … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as …

between 1500-1830, strong capitalist institutions were largely non-existent in the Western world. During the scrable for … Africa, starting in 1885, good institutions were an option, but the disease environment had then drastically changed. We show …/Neo-European subsample, the proposed relationship between settler mortality and institutions is weak or rejected for Latin America and Africa …

usually is accompanied by valuable rents that tend to distort property rights institutions. Our empirical analysis further …