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Title: | Geographical influences on long-run development |
Authors: | Bleaney, Michael Dimico, Arcangelo |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024) |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 5 |
Pages: | 635-656 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | economic research research methods development geography |
External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/5/635.full.pdf |
Abstract: | The authors show that geographical factors (malaria intensity, biodiversity and access to the sea) influence long-run per capita income directly, as well as indirectly, through the quality of institutions. The direct influence of geography on per capita incomes is robust to the inclusion of a sub-Saharan Africa dummy and other tests. The authors obtain their results by replacing the usual instrument (settlers' mortality (SM)) by stronger instruments for institutional quality (latitude, the share of the country in the temperate climatic zone). They also provide evidence that SM suffers from endogeneity with respect to institutional quality for early colonies, because of its dependence on nineteenth-century mortality data. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |