dc.contributor.author | Nunn, Nathan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-02T14:53:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nunn, Nathan. 2008. The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades. Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(1): 139-176. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0033-5533 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3710252 | |
dc.description.abstract | Can 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 To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades.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.sponsorship | Economics | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139 | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Proof | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Quarterly Journal of Economics -Cambridge Massachusetts- | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Nunn, Nathan | |
dc.date.available | 2010-03-02T14:53:51Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139 | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Nunn, Nathan | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5101-9866 | |