No reversal of fortune in the long run: geography and spatial persistence of prosperity in Colombia, 1500-2005

A Meisel

No 12051, Borradores de Economia from Banco de la Republica

Abstract: This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indians in 1559, it is found that the population density of Colombian regions presented a high degree of persistence through time. Thus, the evidence indicates that those places that were prosperous circa 1500 remain so today, and viceversa. These results indicate that the long run influences of geography on regional economic disparities within a country are not negligible.

Keywords: Comparative Economic History; Demographic Economics; Latin America. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 N16 N36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2014-08-21
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-gro, nep-his, nep-lam and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.banrep.gov.co/sites/default/files/publicaciones/archivos/be_841.pdf

Related works:
Journal Article: NO REVERSAL OF FORTUNE IN THE LONG RUN: GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL PERSISTENCE OF PROSPERITY IN COLOMBIA, 1500-2005* (2014)
Working Paper: No reversal of fortune in the long run: geography and spatial persistence of prosperity in Colombia, 1500-2005 (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000094:012051

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Borradores de Economia from Banco de la Republica
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Clorith Angelica Bahos Olivera ().