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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Vol. 1 No. 2 (April 2009)
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History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa
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Huillery, Elise. 2009. "History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa."
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,
1(2): 176-215.
DOI: 10.1257/app.1.2.176
DOI: 10.1257/app.1.2.176
Abstract
To what extent do colonial public investments continue to influence
current regional inequalities in French-speaking West Africa? Using
a new database and the spatial discontinuities of colonial investment
policy, this paper gives evidence that early colonial investments
had large and persistent effects on current outcomes. The nature of
investments also matters. Current educational outcomes have been
more specifically determined by colonial investments in education
rather than health and infrastructures, and vice versa. I show that a
major channel for this historical dependency is a strong persistence
of investments; regions that got more at the early colonial times continued
to get more. (JEL H41, H54, N37, N47, 016)
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Huillery, Elise (Paris School of Economics and IRD, Paris)
JEL Classifications
H41: Public Goods
H54: National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
N37: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: Africa; Oceania
N47: Economic History: Government, War, Law, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
O16: Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
H54: National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
N37: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: Africa; Oceania
N47: Economic History: Government, War, Law, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
O16: Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
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