Did colonization matter for growth

By Graziella Bertocchi, Fabio Canova. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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A Theory of Infrastructure-led Development (2010, background): “In their analysis of the historical causes of African underdevelopment, Bertocchi and Canova (2002) for instance barely mention this aspect of colonization.”
Legal Origin or Colonial History (2011, background): “Similarly, Grier (1999) and Bertocchi & Canova (2002) have shown that former English colonies grew faster than former French colonies.”
Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence (2009, background): “Olson (1982), Mokyr (1990), 18Additional aspects of the role of colonialism in comparative developments are analyzed by Bertocchi and Canova (2002).”
The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa: was British rule more benign? (2012, background): “Empirical studies have presented evidence that British rule has a positive correlation with the quality of present-day government institutions (La Porta et al. 1999), post-colonial levels of capital investment, and post-colonial rates of economic growth (Grier 1999; Bertocchi and Canova 2002).”
Aid, Poverty Reduction and the 'New Conditionality' (2004, background): “9 The potential influence of colonialisation on developing countries’ performance has been noted by several authors, e.g. Acemoglu et al. (2001) and Bertocchi and Canova (2002).”
Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-Term Consequences (2010, unknown): “Feyrer and Sacerdote (2009) find that islands with longer periods of colonial rule have better present-day outcomes; Bertocchi and Canova (2002) find that the postindependence economic performance of British colonies in Africa is less volatile than that of French and German colonies.”
International migration and the role of institutions (2008, background): “7We refer to Acemoglu et al. (2001) and Bertocchi and Canova (2002) for early work exploiting colonial history and to La Porta et al. (1998) for the legal origins approach.”
Individualism–collectivism, governance and economic development (2015, unknown): “I do this to account for the possibility that legal origins may be picking up the impact of colonization on development for reasons that go beyond legal transplantation (Bertocchi and Canova 2002; Feyrer and Sacerdote 2006).”
Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2004, result): “Our results indicating the effect of colonial heritage on agricultural productivity growth corroborate previous findings by Bertocchi and Canova (2002), Grier (1999), Landes (1998) and North, et al., (1998), all of which found former British colonies to achieve higher per capita GDP growth rates…”
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades (2008, unknown): “These studies focus on the link between countries’ colonial experience and current economic development (Grier 1999; Englebert 2000a, 2000b; Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001, 2002; Bertocchi and Canova 2002; Lange 2004).”
Historical Legacies: A Model Linking Africa's Past to its Current Underdevelopment (2007, methodology): “Bertocchi and Canova (2002) find that within Africa, colonial heritage and the extent of economic penetration during colonialism exert a direct influence on post-colonial growth rates, as well as the accumulation of human and physical capital after independence.”