No reversal of fortune in the long run : geography and spatial persistence of prosperity in Colombia, 1500-2005

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Borradores de Economía; No. 841
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2014-08-21
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2014-08-21
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Meisel-Roca, Adolfo
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Abstract
This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indian
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N36 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion and Philanthropy: Latin America; CaribbeanJ10 - Demographic Economics: GeneralN16 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations: Latin America; Caribbean
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Comparative economic history ; Demographic economics ; Latin America ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/6128
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/6128
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.841
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/841.html
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