States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start

By Valerie Bockstette, Areendam Chanda, Louis Putterman. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Performance (2016, unknown): “For robustness, we included either ∆Ei,t, ln Ei,t, or both variables as regressors in Equation 3, using past values of the state capacity measures and historical variables including state antiquity (Bockstette et al., 2002) and protection of capital (Acemoglu et al.”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, unknown): “To do this we employ the disaggregated data from the State Antiquity Index of Bockstette et al. (2002).”
Institutions matter, but which ones? (2005, unknown): “STATEHIST: An index of state antiquity constructed by Bockstette et al. (2002). The index awards points to any given country based on the”
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development (2012, background): “Moreover, our within-country results linking pre-colonial political centralization to contemporary regional development complement the cross-country findings of Bockstette, Chanda, and Putterman (2002) on the beneficial long-run consequences of statehood.”
Does Institutional Quality Foster Economic Complexity? (2019, unknown): “For example, the historical experience with state-level institutions may affect both the quality of institutions and the outcome variable (e.g., Bockstette et al., 2002; Putterman & Weil, 2010; Ang, 2013; Borcan et al., 2018).”
Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, unknown): “10 One important exception is Bockstette et al. (2002), which investigates the economic impacts of early statehood.”
Agriculture, Diffusion and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution (2008, unknown): “…and at different times in Mesopotamia, China, Mexico, Peru and elsewhere is striking. r The London School of Economics and Political Science 2007 Bockstette et al. (2002) studied a measure of the depth of countries’ histories of supra-tribal polities and found it to be a strong predictor of…”
Institution building and growth in transition economies (2005, background): “Distance from Vienna Distance of the capital fromVienna, in kilometers Gleditsch and Ward (2001) State Antiquity An index of how long the country has been the site of a nation-state, kingdom or empire during the past 2,000 years Bockstette et al. (2002)”
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C. (2006, unknown): “( Black 1996 ). We find that many countries with large warships also had advanced land weapons such as muskets and field artillery.”
Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, unknown): “9Using the procedures described in Bockstette et al. (2002), the value of StateHist was calculated for 14 additional countries.”