The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades
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- National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor
Publication
2007 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
9,750 words, Guess
Page Count
39 pages
Identifiers
- OCLC Control Number173619499
- Open LibraryOL17635103M
Description
Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves exported from a country and current economic performance. To better understand if the relationship is causal, I examine the historical evidence on selection into the slave trades, and use instrumental variables. Together the evidence suggests that the slave trades have had an adverse effect on economic development.
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Series Statement
- NBER working paper series -- no. 13367.
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13367.
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