Comment on: Tropics, germs and crops: How endowments influence economic development

By Stanley L. Engerman. 2003

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Historical Origins of Schooling: The Role of Democracy and Political Decentralization (2010, positive): “Hall and Jones (1999), Acemoglu et al. (2001, 2002), Easterly and Levine (2003), and Persson (2005), among others, also use an overidentification test to study the validity of using historical variables to explain current institutions.”
Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance (2007, positive): “See Easterly and Levine (2003) for a review.”
Globalization and financial development (2009, positive): “See, for example, North and Thomas (1973); Hall and Jones (1999); Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001); Easterly and Levine (2001); Rodrik, Subramanian, and Trebbi (2002); Easterly and Levine (2003); Glaeser and others (2004); and the recent survey by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2005).”
Why Worry about Climate Change? A Research Agenda (2008, neutral): “Easterly and Levine (2003) shows convincingly that the conclusion of Gallup et al. (1999) are not robust, and that institutions are a better explanation of income difference than is geography and climate.”
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument ☆ (2007, neutral): “Other scholars have failed to confirm the independent importance of tropical location, suggesting that its effects go through institutions (Easterly and Levine 2003, Rodrik and Subramanian 2004, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2004).”
The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita (2010, neutral): “1See for example Coatsworth, 2005; Glaeser et al., 2004; Easterly and Levine, 2003; Acemoglu et al., 2001, 2002; Sachs, 2001; Engerman and Sokoloff, 1997.”
Does Institutional Quality Foster Economic Complexity? (2019, positive): “These findings are consistent with several studies documenting evidence of the primacy of institutions, rather than geography, in driving the global pattern of growth and development (Easterly & Levine, 2003; Rodrik et al., 2004).”
Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe (2010, positive): “See, for instance, Acemoglu et al. (2003), Dollar and Kraay (2003), and Easterly and Levine (2003).”
Empirics of hills, plateaus, mountains and plains: A Markov-switching approach to growth (2006, neutral): “Easterly et al. (1993) looked at correlation of growth rates across decades (e.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We? (2011, neutral): “There is a direct lineage from this earlier work to the strand of new growth theory that focuses on the role of institutions (Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2001; Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2005; Easterly & Levine, 2003; Rodrik, Subramanian, & Trebbi, 2002).”
Growth and Structural Reforms: A New Assessment (2009, positive): “We begin by adding an indicator of the quality of property rights, which has been found to matter for long-run economic performance (Acemoglu and Johnson, 2005; Easterly and Levine, 2003).”