The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
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Acemoglu, Daron
Johnson, Simon
Robinson, James A
Date Issued
October 2012
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American Economic Review
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American Economic Association
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Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A Robinson. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply.” American Economic Review 102, no. 6 (October 2012): 3077–3110. Copyright © 2012 by the American Economic Association
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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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.6.3077
