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Encomienda, the colonial state, and long-run development in Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez, Fabio - 2024
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Is extraction bad? : encomienda and development in Colombia since 1560
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez Torres, Fabio - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896059
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Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda and Development in Colombia Since 1560
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2017
three centuries, on long-term development outcomes in Colombia. Despite being a classically extractive institution …We explore the impact of encomienda, a forced-labor institution imposed by the Spanish throughout Latin America during …, municipalities that had encomiendas in 1560 have higher development indicators than otherwise-similar, neighboring municipalities …
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What drove the profitability of colonial firms? : labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)
Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - 2022
The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions. However, the link between these institutions and the profitability of firms remains unclear. We reconstruct the...
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Frontier planters, immigrants, and the abolition of slavery in Brazil
Seyler, François; Silve, Arthur - 2021
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The demographic effects of colonialism : forced labor and mortality in Java : 1834-1879
Zwart, Pim de; Gallardo-Albarrán, Daniel; Rijpma, Auke - In: The journal of economic history 82 (2022) 1, pp. 211-249
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Prison Labor : The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Archibong, Belinda; Obikili, Nonso - 2021
Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized...
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The pillars of shared prosperity: insights from elite versus state extraction and from a new instrument
Irarrázaval, Andrés - 2023
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Finding Eldorado : slavery and long-run development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron; García Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. - 2012
investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …
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