1 论文标题
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
2 作者信息
Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
NBER Working Paper No. 18224
Issued in July 2012
4 摘要
We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as proxied by satellite images of light density at night. We document a strong association between pre-colonial ethnic political centralization and regional development. This pattern is not driven by differences in local geographic features or by other observable ethnic-specific cultural and economic variables. The strong positive association between pre-colonial political complexity and contemporary development obtains also within pairs of adjacent ethnic homelands with different legacies of pre-colonial political institutions.


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正式版本发表在
Econometrica Volume 81,  Issue 1, pages 113–152, January 2013