It is the central thesis of this paper that imperialism retarded the development of human resources in lagging …

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 …

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly, and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …, thus enabling new merchants in these countries to benefit from Atlantic trade. Therefore, the Rise of Europe was largely …

development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and …-1500 development, (b) proximity to the colonizing powers, (c) disease environment, and (d) latitude. In the second part, we …

Price Revolution, and made the Spanish manufacturing industry less competitive on the global market. Finally, the effects of …

investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that … public good provision. We also find that slavery is associated with higher contemporary land inequality …

development level, growth or the incidence of conflicts. Nearly all articles have in common that they treat ethnic fragmentation …

population density measures used by Acemoglu et al. (2002) as indicators of level of development in 1500, we confirm a reversal … strong or stronger for three alternative measures of early development, namely years since transition to agriculture, state …-Run Economic Growth ; Comparative Development ; Colonized Countries ; Early Development …