The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data

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Sovereign Debt and Regime Type: Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage (2012, unknown): “…democratic countries with any given probability of entering the credit market tended to obtain better ratings than their autocratic counterparts+52 49+ Albouy 2008+ 50+ The results in Table 3 were generated using Moody’s ratings+ Similar results follow for Standard and Poor’s ratings+ 51+…”
The ‘reversal of fortune’ thesis and the compression of history: Perspectives from African and comparative economic history (2008, background): “…connection between pre-quinine settler mortality and economic growth per capita near the end of the 20th century (Acemoglu et al., 2001, 2006; cf. Alouy, 2006).3 In sum, AJR find a causal relationship from low mortality rates among European settlers, to the colonial establishment of private…”