Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education?

By J. Bolt, Dirk Bezemer. 2008

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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In Demography

1. Natalija Novta
2. E. Frankema
3. Léonard Wantchekon
4. Marko Klašnja
5. Vanessa S. Tchamyou
6. N. Johnson
7. Mark Koyama
8. D. Stasavage

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Natalija Novta
2. E. Frankema
3. Léonard Wantchekon
4. Marko Klašnja
5. Rohini Pande
6. D. Stasavage
7. N. Johnson
8. Mark Koyama

In Information Systems

1. Natalija Novta
2. E. Frankema
3. Léonard Wantchekon
4. Marko Klašnja
5. Vanessa S. Tchamyou

Citations in the corpus

• The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa: was British rule more benign? (2012, background): “Bolt and Bezemer (2009) have argued that colonial education is the key to explaining long-run growth disparities in Africa and that the former British colonies grew faster as a result of their educational lead.”
• Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin (2015, background): “For instance, Emerson and Souza (2008) and Parish and Willis (1993) discuss credit constraints, Cornwell et al. (2005) focuses on economies of scale, and Jensen (2010) and Abeler et al.”