Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies: How Competition Mattered

By F. Gallego, R. Woodberry. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Information Systems

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1. V. Rueda
2. Julia Cagé
3. F. Caicedo

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1. V. Rueda
2. Julia Cagé
3. F. Caicedo

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1. V. Rueda
2. Julia Cagé
3. F. Caicedo

Citations in the corpus

• The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, background): “Gallego (2010) argues for the importance of democracy and political decentralization.”
• The long Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub Saharan Africa (2016, result): “As opposed to the existing literature on the role of missionary activity (Woodberry, 2004; Gallego and Woodberry, 2010; Nunn, 2010; McCleary, 2012; Woodberry, 2012) our treatment is not binary.”
• Institutions, Human Capital and Development: Online Appendix (2014, unknown): “Here, in addition to exploiting the same sources of variation in institutions as in Acemoglu et al. (2001, 2002, 2012b), we follow Gallego & Woodberry (2009, 2010) and Woodberry (2011) in using variation in Protestant missionary activity as a determinant of long-run differences in human capital in…”