Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants

Ertan, Arhan S.; Fiszbein, Martín; Putterman, Louis

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.012

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“…17 However, the overall situation in this regard is quite complex and without further analysis we cannot formulate a general conclusion as to whether colonization and economic domination by states of medium age were or were not on balance net contributors to the stagnation of earlier states. For many earlier states colonization was typically either late or never came: Hariri (2012) and Ertan et al (2016) show that older states (such as China and Turkey) were most likely not to have been colonized by Europeans at all, and Ertan et al show that if they were colonized (as with what are now the countries of the Levant) it tended to be much later than other countries. Hariri argues that being colonized was advantageous in the sense that it promoted modernization (democratization) of institutions, relative to countries not colonized.…”

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State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia

2017

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The presence of a state is one of the most reliable historical predictors of social and economic development. In this article, we complete the coding of an extant indicator of state presence from 3500 BCE forward for almost all but the smallest countries of the world today. We outline a theoretical framework where accumulated state experience increases aggregate productivity in individual countries but where newer or relatively inexperienced states can reach a higher productivity maximum by learning from the experience of older states. The predicted pattern of comparative development is tested in an empirical analysis where we introduce our extended state history variable. Our key finding is that the current level of economic development across countries has a hump-shaped relationship with accumulated state history. Keywords State historyWe are grateful for useful comments from Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Jakob Gerner Hariri, Sascha Becker and four anonymous referees and from seminar participants at University of Copenhagen and Brown University. We also thank Taewan Roh and Nicholas Carter for valuable research assistance. Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9152-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The state history data have also been employed in a number of other studies, receiving focal attention inAng (2013a, b), playing important roles inAhlerup and Olsson (2012),Hariri (2012),Ertan et al (2016), andDaniele (2013), and being included as a control in a number of other studies. None of the above studies attempts to extend the information on states to include the BCE years or fill in the last half of the 20th Century.…”

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The presence of a state is one of the most reliable historical predictors of social and economic development. In this article, we complete the coding of an extant indicator of state presence from 3500 BCE forward for almost all but the smallest countries of the world today. We outline a theoretical framework where accumulated state experience increases aggregate productivity in individual countries but where newer or relatively inexperienced states can reach a higher productivity maximum by learning from the experience of older states. The predicted pattern of comparative development is tested in an empirical analysis where we introduce our extended state history variable. Our key finding is that the current level of economic development across countries has a hump-shaped relationship with accumulated state history. Keywords State history · Comparative development · Institutions · Deep roots JEL Classification O11 · O43 · O50 · N00 We are grateful for useful comments from Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Jakob Gerner Hariri, Sascha Becker and four anonymous referees and from seminar participants at University of Copenhagen and Brown University. We also thank Taewan Roh and Nicholas Carter for valuable research assistance. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9152-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Mauritius is part of the 90% of Africa colonized by European countries by 1917 [2]. Discourses in music education in most of these countries are about how indigenous music is struggling to find their way informal curricula, which is heavily laden with western music, established by the culturally hegemonic former colonizers [3][4] [5].…”

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“New Colonisers” Play in Postcolonial Music Education in Mauritius

Clarisse

2020

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Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants

Cited by 27 publications

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State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia

State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia

State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia

“New Colonisers” Play in Postcolonial Music Education in Mauritius

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