The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita

By Melissa Dell. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics (2015, neutral): “Perhaps the most convincing of these studies is Dippel (2014), who considers the natural experiment surrounding the formation of Native American reservations.”
Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities (2015, background): “Dell (2010) uses a geographic discontinuity to study the effect of a forced labor mining system in Peru and Bolivia (the mita) on household consumption and other measures.”
Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-Run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape (2020, background): “Of the same flavor is Dell (2010), which shows that the economic performance of towns in rural Peru is correlated with their position with respect to the boundary of a colonial labor tax catchment area that was abolished in the early nineteenth century.”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “…on several of the same outcomes as in our paper, such as literacy and the provision of various public goods (e.g., Gennaioli and Rainer, 2007; Dell, 2010; Bandyopadhyay and Green, 2012; Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, 2013; Acemoglu et al., 2015), but has not focused on the role of organized…”
The Standard Errors of Persistence (2019, positive): “In Section 7 we check the sensitivity of our results to the BCH homogeneity assumptions by comparison to the alternate large cluster method of Ibragimov and Müller (2010) that has excellent robustness properties under general cross-cluster heterogeneity.”
Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries (2009, methodology): “Dell (2008) utilizes a regression discontinuity approach to examine the long-run impacts of the mita, an extensive forced mining labor system in effect in Peru and Bolivia during the colonial era.”
Regression Discontinuity Designs (2021, positive): “Dong, Lee, and Gou (2021) consider an RD design with a continuous (rather than binary or multi-valued) treatment, within the continuity framework, and show that RD causal effects can be identified based on changes in the probability distribution of the continuous treatment at the cutoff. Caetano, Ca”
Islamic Rule and the Empowerment of the Poor and Pious (2014, methodology): “For piety, I use the Building Census data to create a variable defined as the religious building share of all building space in 21See Dell (2010) for a useful discussion of comparing RD and OLS estimates to infer external validity.”
Institutions, Human Capital and Development: Online Appendix (2014, neutral): “As documented in Acemoglu & Dell (2010) for Latin America and in Gennaioli et al. (2013) more broadly, there is huge regional inequality within countries, and this is correlated with the average educational attainment of the inhabitants of the regions.”
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development (2012, background): “While these societies lacked statehood, they tended to have conflict resolution mechanisms and a somewhat centralized decision-making process (Diamond (1997)).”
Sharing Risk with the Government: How Taxes Affect Corporate Risk Taking (2017, neutral): “23 See Holmes (1998), Huang (2008), Dell (2010), and Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010). parallel after removing the effects (if any) of variation in local conditions.24 Table 5 reports the results.”