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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
卷 91, 期 5, 页码 1369-1401出版社
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.5.1369
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We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they, could not settle and were more likely to set up extractive institutions. These institutions persisted to the present. Exploiting differences in European mortality rates as an instrument for current institutions, we estimate large effects of institutions on income per capita. Once the effect of institutions is controlled for, countries in Africa or those closer to the equator do not have lower incomes.
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