Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics

By Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 2002

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/017ae2bfab318d8eb56894460bfd17a351e7b73a

Citations in the corpus

• History, institutions and economic performance : the legacy of colonial land tenure systems in India (2005, unknown): “33See Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) for some examples from the Latin American context.”
• Institutions and Development: The Interaction Between Trade Regime and Political System (2005, unknown): “land-abundant regions like those in Latin America (e.g., Sokoloff and Engerman, 2000; Engerman and Sokoloff, 2002 ).”
• Political instability: Effects on financial development, roots in the severity of economic inequality (2011, unknown): “First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability.”
• Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda (2007, unknown): “There is also a series of comparative historical studies by Engerman and Sokoloff [32, 33] on the interaction between factor”
• Institutions matter, but which ones? (2005, unknown): “In explaining the divergent development paths in North and South America since the early colonial times, Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) have provided a great deal of evidence of how in societies with high inequality at the outset of colonization institutions evolved in ways that restricted to a…”
• International migration and the role of institutions (2008, unknown): “development. Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) argue that the evolution of factor endowments”
• The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered (2012, unknown): “17 The United States, Canada, and Japan had the highest percentages of corporate tax collections in 1970.”
• Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance (2007, unknown): “This factor subsumes several accounts that link initial conditions (e.g., climate and diseases, land and crops) and colonization on the one hand with social institutions and economic development on the other hand (Acemoglu et al. 2001, 2002; Engerman and Sokoloff 2002, 1997; Treisman, 2000).”
• Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (2011, unknown): “For example, Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) argue that the soil and climate in Europe’s South American and Caribbean colonies were suitable for the production of cash crops, such as sugar, that could be efficiently produced on large slave plantations, resulting in highly unequal distributions of wea”