The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development

By M. Alsan. 2015

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On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, neutral): “Indeed, settlers’ mortality rates could be correlated with natives mortality rates and hence pre-colonial development; see e.g., Alsan, 2012, on the habitat for the Tse-Tse fly in Africa.5 Naturally, similar issues arise when identifying culture as the cause of prosperity, by isolating cultural…”
Thermal biology of mosquito-borne disease (2019, background): “2016, 2018) and human and livestock diseases transmitted by biting midges, fleas, and flies (Akey et al. 1978; Carpenter et al. 2011; Moore et al. 2012; Alsan 2015), and tick-borne diseases (Ostfeld & Brunner 2015; Cheng et al.”
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change (2018, background): “If differences in human institutions are accounted for, the apparent influence of climate on development disappears in some studies (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001, 2002; Easterly and Levine 2003)(12) but not in others (Alsan 2015).”
The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development (2013, background): “(14) Data on historical population density are obtained from McEvedy and Jones (1978), who provide figures at the country level; i.”