The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

By Nathan Nunn. 2008

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The long Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub Saharan Africa (2016, methodology): “Geocoded town-level data are from Nunn (2008).”
Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene) (2017, background): “…(i) the negative effects of institutional confidence and knowledge in knowledge acquisition and innovations (Amavilah, 2009a) and (ii) the evolving stream of studies on the negative long-run impacts of deinstitutionalization on African economic prosperity (Nunn, 2008, 2009; Nunn & Puga, 2012).”
Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Civil Examination System (2020, background): “…institutions and culture can each generate long-lasting effects on modern economic development (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, 2001; Dell, 2010; Guiso, Sapienza, and Zinga.les, 2016; Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, 2013; Nunn, 2008; Nunn and Wantchekon, 2011; Voigtländer and Voth, 2012).”
The Standard Errors of Persistence (2019, neutral): “Malaria prevalence is included as a control in all studies of Africa and is added to Nunn (2008).”
Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications (2013, neutral): “Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) have shown that it is still present three”
Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, positive): “Ostrom (1990) has, for instance, shown that in fact societies sometimes do design cooperative equilibria using repeated games to ensure that it is in the individual’s selfish interest to be 13 See Putnam (2000) (14) Traditionally, families have been modeled as if they maximize a family social welfar”
Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings (2019, background): “Nunn (2008) shows robust negative relationship between the number of slaves exported from a country and current economic performance.”
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, neutral): “We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute for International Economic Policy and the Elliott School of International Affairs at GWU.”