Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact …, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a … control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on …

institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …In examining some big questions on African development, we provide evidence that dynamics of some development …

the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development …. -- growth ; institutions ; geography ; comparative development ; colonialism …, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …

controlled for. -- Colonization ; Growth ; Institutions ; Pre-Modern Development ; Migration … colonization affect income today once colonization's impact on the composition of the population and the quality of institutions is …Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic …

colonization affect income today once colonization's impact on the composition of the population and the quality of institutions is …Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic … development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and …

institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas …