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Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two...

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties …, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three …

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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs

Baldwin, Richard; Martin, Philippe; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

-Industrial-Revolution phenomena – the industrialization and growth take-off of rich ‘northern’ nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …

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Fecundity, Fertility and Family Reconstitution Data: The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-O Revisite

Klemp, Marc P B; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Growth theorists have recently argued that western nations grew rich by parents substituting child quantity (number of births) for child quality (education). Using family reconstitution data from historical England, we explore the causal link between family size and human capital of offspring...

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The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

industrialization provided women with greater opportunities. Our contributions to both debates have implications for analyses of growth …

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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution

Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Our analysis exploits geographical variation in city and coalfield locations, alongside temporal variation in the availability of...

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The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper argues that an economy's transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth requires markets to reach a critical size, and competition to reach a critical level of intensity. By allowing an economy to produce a greater variety of goods, a larger market makes goods more...

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

industrialization transforms the economic landscape. …

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