Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance

By M. Dincecco, M. Prado. Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2012

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Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “I underscore the importance of ethnic institutions and inform our knowledge of the effects of trade on institutions.”
State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Performance (2016, unknown): “Dincecco and Prado (2012) find a significant positive relationship between current fiscal capacity and economic performance.”
Beyond plausibly exogenous (2018, unknown): “As a result, current applications of the plausibly exogenous approach are exclusively used as a broad-brush sensitivity analysis in the absence of reliable prior information (e.g. Dincecco and Prado, 2012, Ding et al., 2009 and Nunn and Wantchekon, 2011).”
States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “An extensive literature has establish the importance played by warfare in the rise of state capacity in early modern Europe (e.g Tilly, 1990; Besley and Persson, 2011, 2013; Dincecco and Prado, 2012; Gennaioli and Voth, 2015; Hoffman, 2015a).”
The State of State Capacity : a review of concepts, evidence and measures (2013, background): “Dincecco and Prado (2012) present an empirical strategy that uses exogenous variation in fiscal capacity in order to assess its effects on productivity.”