Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 7 (2005) July-December, pp. 17-67
This article uses the different mortality rates of European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies. In places where mortality rates were high they did not settle, but set up...
