The modern impact of precolonial centralization in Africa

By N. Gennaioli, I. Rainer. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades (2008, unknown): “To do this I use a measure of precolonial state development from Gennaioli and Rainer (2006).”
History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa (2009, background): “Some positive social interactions such as peer-effects or intergenerational externalities can explain that a more educated population produces a higher demand for education (see Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin 2007 for an empirical analysis on peer effects and Flavio Cunha and James Heckman 2007 for ”
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, background): “Jesuits priests were exiled in Ferdinand the Great's Prussia and Catherine the Great's Russia, and the (15)Gennaioli and Rainer (2007); Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2013); Maloney and Valencia Caicedo (2016).”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, methodology): “The presence of such towns is thus both an indication of the pattern of landownership and, as emphasized by Hobsbawm (1971), a potential direct determinant of peasant organizations, since the presence of so many peasants agglomerated in agro-towns “gave them the opportunity to discuss grievances, fo”
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach (2015, unknown): “…of African or Latin American nations to their limited state capacity.1 This hypothesis also receives support from the cross-country empirical evidence presented in Gennaioli and Rainer (2007) and the within-country evidence in Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2013) and Bandyopadhyay and Green (2012).”
An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule (2011, background): “53 For a similar effort of this nature, see Gennaioli and Rainer 2007.”
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom (2017, unknown): “Our study complements the findings from recent studies that have shown the beneficial effects of pre-colonial state centralization for contemporary economic development (Gennaioli and Rainer, 2007, Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, 2013, 2014a).”