The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
Daron Acemoglu,
Simon Johnson and
James Robinson
American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 102, issue 6, 3077-3110
Abstract:
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) established that economic institutions today are correlated with expected mortality of European colonialists. David Albouy argues this relationship is not robust. He drops all data from Latin America and much of the data from Africa, making up almost 60 percent of our sample, despite much information on the mortality of Europeans in those places during the colonial period. He also includes a "campaign" dummy that is coded inconsistently; even modest corrections undermine his claims. We also show that limiting the effect of outliers strengthens our results, making them robust to even extreme versions of Albouy's critiques. (JEL D02, E23, F54, I12, N40, O43, P14)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (109)
Downloads: (external link)
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.102.6.3077 (application/pdf)
http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data/oct2012/20110390_data.zip dataset accompanying article (application/zip)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.
Related works:
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:aea:aecrev:v:102:y:2012:i:6:p:3077-3110
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions
Access Statistics for this article
American Economic Review is currently edited by Esther Duflo
More articles in American Economic Review from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().