Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorAcemoglu, Daron
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Simon
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, James A
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-28T17:15:13Z
dc.date.available2014-02-28T17:15:13Z
dc.date.issued2012-10
dc.identifier.issn0002-8282
dc.identifier.issn1944-7981
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85190
dc.description.abstractAcemoglu, 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.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Economic Associationen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.6.3077en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceAmerican Economic Associationen_US
dc.titleThe Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Replyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationAcemoglu, 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 Associationen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSloan School of Managementen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorAcemoglu, Daronen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorJohnson, Simonen_US
dc.relation.journalAmerican Economic Reviewen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsAcemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James Aen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-7155
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US
mit.metadata.statusComplete


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record