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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860
Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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Climate change and water resources in the Middle East: Vulnerability, socio-economic impacts, and adaption
El- Fadel, Mutasem; Bou-Zeid, Elie R. - 2001
While the extent of human induced global warming is inconclusive, the vulnerability of natural systems to rapid changes in climate patterns is regarded as one of the most challenging issues in recent years. Water resources are a main component of natural systems that might be affected by climate...
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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southernMediterranean countries partnered with the European Union and collectively known as MED-11. Noting that the analysis applies to the situation prior to the dislocations of the...
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The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP
Bank, André; Karadag, Roy - 2012
In 2006/2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has continued to maintain in the context of the Arab Spring. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim AKP government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, the...
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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring"
Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - 2012
This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in 2011 forced rulers to resign, other...
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An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders
Martins, Igor - 2019
agriculture production and calls for a broader theory of slavery as capital investment. …
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...
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Bondage: Labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries
Stanziani, Alessandro - 2018
the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards via indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in …
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Improving Credibility by Delegating Judicial Competence: The Case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Voigt, Stefan; Ebeling, Michael; Blume, Lorenz - 2004
It is argued that government credibility is an important resource and that it can be improved by delegating decision-making competence beyond the nation-state. It is hypothesized that such delegation should result in higher income and growth. Some former British colonies retained the Judicial...
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