, where due to population mixing and the salience of national institutions ethnic traits play a lesser role. Overall, our …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial … different country-level institutions, offers a regression discontinuity framework. After identifying the partitioned ethnicities … we document a positive cross-sectional association between national institutions and regional economic development …

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that … institutions. Using both a matching-type and a regression discontinuity approach we show that differences in countrywide … correlation between formal national institutions and economic development has to be carefully interpreted. …

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development … ethnic homelands with different legacies of pre-colonial political institutions. …

evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

evolutionary advantage to entrepreneurial, growth promoting traits and their increased representation accelerated the pace of … technological advancements and the process of economic development. Natural selection therefore had magnified growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to the convergence of the …