Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Geographical influences on long-run development
Authors:Bleaney, MichaelISNI
Dimico, ArcangeloISNI
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]
Views
Cover