Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.

By Diego A. Comin, William R. Easterly, Erick Gong. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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The long-run impact of human capital on innovation and economic development in the regions of Europe (2018, background): “For instance, Comin, Easterly, and Gong (2010) take a long-run perspective and show that there is a strong relationship between technology in 1500 AD and current GDP per capita as well as technology adoption in the world.”
Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development (2008, positive): “Moreover, consistent with Diamond’s (1997) hypothesis, Comin et al. (2006) have recently uncovered evidence identifying historical technology adoption as a significant determinant of contemporary development outcomes.”
Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, neutral): “Comin et al. (2010) emphasize technology adoption levels in 1500, prior to European contact and colonization.”
State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia (2017, positive): “The Average Technology Adoption index in 1500 CE is constructed by Comin et al. (2010).”
The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development (2015, positive): “3 In related work, Comin, Easterly, and Gong (2010) find evidence that the level of technology 500 years ago predicts differences in income and technology in the present day.”
Openness and income: The roles of trade and migration (2014, background): “Current cross-country income differences are also closely related to differences in development several centuries earlier (Diamond, 1997; Comin et al., 2010).”
The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development (2013, neutral): “In particular, ω * satisfies (4) (1 − α ω * ) A ω (z, ω * ) = α A (z, ω * ).”
State Capacity and Long-Run Economic Performance (2016, positive): “…geography, the nature and quality of initial political institutions (Bockstette et al., 2002, Acemoglu et al., 2005), initial economic and technological conditions (Comin et al., 2010), and cultural norms (Greif and Tabellini, 2010), while the fixed effects λt account for common time shocks.”
States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “Comin et al. (2010) show that the level of technological development in 1500 strongly predicts incomes today.”
Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany (2012, positive): “Our work is also related to research on ‘‘deep’’ parameters, such as technological starting conditions, genetic origin, and population composition (Spolaore and Wacziarg 2009; Comin, Easterly, and Gong 2010; Putterman and Weil 2010).”
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, background): “Focusing on extractive institutions, Dell (2010) stresses the negative e ect of the mita labor system in Latin America, and Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) document the adverse e ect of African slavery through decreased trust.”