Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact …, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a … control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on …

institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas …

While the importance of institutions for explaining cross-country income differences is widely recognized …, comparatively little is known about the origins of economic institutions. One strand of the literature emphasizes cultural … is presented in support of this selection process. The results suggest that any theory of colonial development that does …

Do historical institutions have a persistent impact on economic performance? We analyze the colonial institutions set … up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions … are not driven by omitted variables or endogeneity of the historical institutions, and argue that they probably arise …

This paper analyzes the effects of institutions on economic development, and focuses on separating political … institutions for economic development, and provides an inside into the channels through which specific institutions affect income … institutions from contracting and economic institutions. For a sample of former European colonies, I find that differences in …

We analyze the colonial land revenue institutions set up by the British in India, and show that differences in … historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences in economic outcomes. Areas in which proprietary rights in … arise because differences in historical institutions lead to very different policy choices …

colonization affect income today once colonization's impact on the composition of the population and the quality of institutions is …Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic … development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and …