The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Nonso Obikili

No 378, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s history of slave exporting to its current economic development. In this paper I show that differences in investment in education may be one of the channels through which that history has affected current development. I combine data on literacy rates of administrative districts from the colonial censuses […]

Keywords: Africa; capital - human; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N37 N97 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-01
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