Institutions, Human Capital and Development: Online Appendix

By Daron Acemoglu, F. Gallego, James A. Robinson. 2014

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This online appendix presents (i) a detailed description of the construction of the proxies used in this paper for population density before colonization at the regional level, (ii) Tables including the coefficients estimated for the control variables in the first and second stages in Tables 4 to 8 (these tables present the same numbers as in the main text in order to make the comparison easier), and (iii) a table including estimates for exactly-identifies models.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, unknown): “…determinant of contemporaneous growth and development hasbeen debated, its importance as a proximate cause, i.e., an essential input in the production function, is undisputed (Hall and Jones, 1999; Glaeser, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer, 2004; Acemoglu, Gallego, and Robinson, 2014).”
Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “Therefore, this new class of growth model recognizes some aspects of social factors that are also important in the generation of economic growth, which are influenced by the institutional settings (Acemoglu et al., 2014; Rodrik, 2005).”
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, background): “(1998), Acemoglu et al. (2001 and 2002), Ashraf and Galor (2013), Glaeser et al. (2004) and Landes (1998). (3)Compared to McCleary and Barro (2003 and 2006), I focus less on the direct e ects of religion and more on its human capital externalities (Glaeser and Sacerdote, 2008; Becker and Woessmann, ”
Generic and Specific Skills as Components of Human Capital: New Challenges for Education Theory and Practice (2019, background): “More and more economists have returned to ideas from the 1970s about the leading role of institutions for which a good education system — as well as economic growth — are outcomes of their work rather than key inputs [Acemoglu et al., 2014].”
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? (2019, methodology): “However, we base our analysis on the ideas of Acemoglu et al. (2014), Baumol (1990), Bjørnskov and Foss (2016), North and Thomas (1973), and Rodrik (2003) about entrepreneurship as a conduit of institutions to achieve economic growth.”