Replication data for: Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Areendam Chanda; C. Justin Cook; Louis Putterman
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Project Citation:
Chanda, Areendam, Cook, C. Justin, and Putterman, Louis. Replication data for: Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114302V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Using data on place of origin of today's country populations and the indicators of level of development in 1500 used by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002), we confirm a reversal of fortune for colonized countries as territories, but find persistence of fortune for people and their descendants. Persistence results are at least as strong for three alternative measures of early development, for which reversal for territories, however, fails to hold. Additional exercises lend support to Glaeser et al.'s (2004) view that human capital is a more fundamental channel of influence of precolonial conditions on modern development than is quality of institutions.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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ancestry adjusted;
population movement;
migration
JEL Classification:
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J11 Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
N10 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
N30 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O43 Institutions and Growth
R11 Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
J11 Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
N10 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
N30 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O43 Institutions and Growth
R11 Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Geographic Coverage:
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global, cross-country
Time Period(s):
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1960 – 2009 (main year used in analysis is 1995, but other years also considered.)
Universe:
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Global, cross-country analysis primarily for 1995.
Data Type(s):
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census/enumeration data;
observational data;
aggregate data
Collection Notes:
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Primary data analysis uses ancestry adjustments from Putterman and Weil (2010). Secondary analysis adjusts the Putterman and Weil (2010) migration matrix from 1500-2000 CE to 1500-1960 CE.
Methodology
Data Source:
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Ozden, Caglar, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff and Terrie Walmsley, 2011, "Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960 - 2000," Policy Research Working Paper 5709, World Bank Development Research Group Trade and Integration Team. Putterman, Louis with David Weil, 2010, "Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long-Run Determits of Economic Growth and Inequality," Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (4): 1627-82.
Unit(s) of Observation:
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country,
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