Using data for 38 countries, I estimate the impact of slave trades on individual components of GDP. I observe three important pieces of evidence that countries greatly affected by slave exports are less developed today. Firstly, I find that countries with more slave exports spend a smaller share of GDP on government purchases. This finding is consistent with Wagner’s law in that more developed countries tend to allocate a larger share of GDP on government expenditure. I also find weak evidence that these countries spend less on health and education which implies low investment in human capital in these countries. Secondly, I find that countries that exported more slaves are more dependent on agriculture. These countries have not experienced...
Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation’s past dependence on slave labo...
Although Africa's indigenous systems of slavery have been extensively described in the historical li...
Our data and literature gathered was focused on answering the thesis question, “Does a country’s soc...
Can Africa’s current state of under-development be partially at-tributed to the large trade in slave...
Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this que...
The literature has not sufficiently engaged the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of Slave e...
Nunn (2008) provided the first empirical evidence that linked slave trade to Africa's current poor e...
Improving living standards is a key priority for both policymakers and researchers. While trade is p...
This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that Africa’s slave tra...
Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation’s past dependence on slave labo...
This article, using a novel dataset, demonstrates that slavery is empirically bad for business. Buil...
This paper makes two contributions to the research on colonialism, slave trade, and Africa’s current...
This article examines the role of cognitive ability or intelligence on slave exports from Africa. We...
This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different di...
Africa experienced two major crisis in its history; slave trade and colonialism. At a time of both e...
Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation’s past dependence on slave labo...
Although Africa's indigenous systems of slavery have been extensively described in the historical li...
Our data and literature gathered was focused on answering the thesis question, “Does a country’s soc...
Can Africa’s current state of under-development be partially at-tributed to the large trade in slave...
Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this que...
The literature has not sufficiently engaged the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of Slave e...
Nunn (2008) provided the first empirical evidence that linked slave trade to Africa's current poor e...
Improving living standards is a key priority for both policymakers and researchers. While trade is p...
This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that Africa’s slave tra...
Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation’s past dependence on slave labo...
This article, using a novel dataset, demonstrates that slavery is empirically bad for business. Buil...
This paper makes two contributions to the research on colonialism, slave trade, and Africa’s current...
This article examines the role of cognitive ability or intelligence on slave exports from Africa. We...
This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different di...
Africa experienced two major crisis in its history; slave trade and colonialism. At a time of both e...
Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation’s past dependence on slave labo...
Although Africa's indigenous systems of slavery have been extensively described in the historical li...
Our data and literature gathered was focused on answering the thesis question, “Does a country’s soc...