“…Second, differences in informational endowments around colonial Protestant missions in Africa have persisted for more than 200 years (Woodberry, 2004(Woodberry, , 2012Gallego & Woodberry, 2010;Nunn, 2009Nunn, , 2016Wantchekon, Klasnja & Novta, 2015). Both cross-and sub-national research (Woodberry, 2004(Woodberry, , 2012Lankina & Getachew, 2012;Wietzke, 2012) has found that groups and areas exposed to Protestant missions have substantially different levels of modern-day literacy, schooling, and human capital than those groups and areas with no exposure to Protestant missions, which is due to intra-household generational transmission and path-dependent local institutional investments (Wietzke, 2012;Huillery, 2009;Lankina & Getachew, 2012: 467).…”