Pillars of Prosperity

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State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Performance (2016, unknown): “Besley and Persson (2009, 2011) show significant positive correlations between past wars and current fiscal and economic outcomes.”
Return of industrial policy? (2012, unknown): “Other development specialists have focused on the important question of how to constrain politicians and officials to provide services (including industrial policy) that meet a national interest test rather than just a sectional interest test (Besley and Persson 2011).”
Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, unknown): “In this respect, the closest antecedent to our paper is the recent set of works by Besley and Persson (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), which examines the relationships between conflict, state capacity, and growth over time.”
Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya (2018, background): “3There is a large literature pointing to a theoretical and empirical relationship between state capacity and the provision of public goods and services (see among others Acemoglu (2005) and Besley and Persson (2011)).”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, unknown): “As we discuss below, these results are consistent with a body of historical research that suggests that while, in the long-run, state capacity and constraints on the executive are complements (Besley and Persson, 2011), in the medium-run, investments in state capacity often preceded the imposition o”