Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space (2017, positive): “Acemoglu et al. (2001, 2002) show in a number of influential studies that current institutions and development are determined by colonial institutions, which in turn depend on historical factors, such as population density and urbanization during the time of colonialization. Today’s regional inequal”
Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications (2003, background): “…smallholder producers to enjoy better output/input price ratios due to larger scale transactions or national-level institutions that ensure property rights, contract enforcement, and reasonably equal opportunities to all residents (North 1990, Acemoglu et al. 2001, 2002, Barrett and Swallow 2003).”
On the Distribution of Education and Democracy (2006, background): “14 The source of these data is Acemoglu et al. (2001) for the Mortality rate faced by the European colonizers; Acemoglu et al. (2002) for Population density in 1500; Polity IV for the Constraints on the Executive at Independence and the CIAWorld Factbook (2004) for the Year of Independence.”