The long-term effects of africa's slave trades
By: Nathan Nunn
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13367; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13367.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades.  I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves exported from a country and current economic performance.  To better understand if the relationship is causal, I examine the historical evidence on selection into the slave trades, and use instrumental variables.  Together the evidence suggests that the slave trades have had an adverse effect on economic development"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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