Intelligence and Slave Exports from Africa

Simplice Asongu and Oasis Kodila-Tedika

No 19/005, Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. from African Governance and Development Institute.

Abstract: This article examines the role of cognitive ability or intelligence on slave exports from Africa. We test a hypothesis that countries which were endowed with higher levels of cognitive ability were more likely to experience lower levels of slave exports from Africa probably due to comparatively better capacities to organise, corporate, oversee and confront slave traders. The investigated hypothesis is valid from alternative specifications involving varying conditioning information sets. The findings are also robust to the control of outliers.

Keywords: Intelligence; Human Capital; Slavery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I29 N30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2019-01
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Forthcoming: Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics

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Working Paper: Intelligence and Slave Exports from Africa (2019)
Working Paper: Intelligence and Slave Exports from Africa (2019)
Working Paper: Intelligence and Slave Exports from Africa (2019)
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