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dc.contributor.authorNunn, Nathan
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-02T14:53:51Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationNunn, Nathan. 2008. The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades. Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(1): 139-176.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0033-5533en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3710252
dc.description.abstractCan part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves exported from a country and current economic performance. To better understand if the relationship is causal, I examine the historical evidence on selection into the slave trades and use instrumental variables. Together the evidence suggests that the slave trades had an adverse effect on economic development.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomicsen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139en_US
dash.licenseLAA
dc.titleThe Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Tradesen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionProofen_US
dc.relation.journalQuarterly Journal of Economics -Cambridge Massachusetts-en_US
dash.depositing.authorNunn, Nathan
dc.date.available2010-03-02T14:53:51Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139*
dash.contributor.affiliatedNunn, Nathan
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5101-9866


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