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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145474
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
Albouy, David - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2006
In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the effect of property rights institutions on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818079
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2014
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163100
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Explaining the Great Reversal in Spanish America
Katz, Aaron; Hau, Matthias vom; Mahoney, James - In: Sociological Methods & Research 33 (2005) 4, pp. 539-573
economic development and that dense indigenous populations are probabilistically necessary for social underdevelopment. By …
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Institutions or Geography: Which Matters Most for Economic Development?
Saha, Bibhas - In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 25 (2013) 1-2, pp. 69-89
Although development economics generally confines its attention to the last 60 years, there is a growing body of … development. One view is that the extractive institutions created during colonization between 1500 and 1900 are responsible for … alternative perspectives on development economics.JEL: N4, O1, O4 …
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Colonialism and development in Africa
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - African Economic History Network - 2013
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … interesting. We emphasize that to draw conclusions it is necessary not just to know what actually happened to development during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896614
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The Social Science of Empire
David, Lempert - In: Journal of Developing Societies 28 (2012) 4, pp. 441-468
This essay both advocates and presents the research agenda for an interdisciplinary approach to a social science of empire, using, as its springboard, the review of four new books offered by three US publishers, linked in an endeavor called the “American Empire Project.†It begins with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010827451
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Globalization vs. Growth and Development
Wiecek-Starczynska, Agata - In: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Ekonomia 45 (2014) 2, pp. 173-186
In the article is considered the correlation between globalization and growth or development in the world . The paper … shows positive and negative aspects of this phenomenon. Particular attention is paid to the problem of development …
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Neither so low nor so short! Wages and heights in eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries colonial Hispanic America
Dobado González, Rafael; García, Hector - Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales … - 2009
contemporary Latin America problems of development (slow growth and high inequality). It shows solid quantitative evidence on wages … negative- effects of Spanish colonialism on the welfare of common people. Purchasing capacity of miners and labourers in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008501681
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On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism
Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651790