focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival … sources about the boundaries of historical cotton concessions with survey data collected specifically for this study. By … employing a regression discontinuity design to compare individuals living in areas inside and outside the historical cotton …

) for the Mozambique Zambezi Valley cotton concession sub-region to examine the economy-wide impacts and relative changes in … increased cotton world prices; because sustained increases in world prices are unlikely, this result is encouraging. While … not left behind when interventions are focused on cotton growers. Even when impacts are limited among growers, any …

International influence -- Explaining growth -- Comparative colonialism -- Statistical regularities -- Nested inference …