Contents

Foreword   

Series Introduction: Historical legacies and contemporary development   
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou 

Introduction    
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

Type of colonisation and Latin American development
Joana Naritomi

The persistent effects of Peru’s mining mita
Melissa Dell

Missionaries, human capital transmission and economic persistence in South America
Felipe Valencia Caicedo

Forced coexistence and economic development: Evidence from Native American reservations
Christian Dippel

When the levee breaks: Black migration and economic development in the American South
Richard Hornbeck and Suresh Naidu

Effects of high-skilled immigration on US invention: Evidence from German-Jewish émigrés
Petra Moser, Alessandra Voena, and Fabian Waldinger

The Protestant Reformation’s impact in Europe
Sascha O. Becker and Jared Rubin

How the medieval city-states experience influences contemporary trust and civic culture in Italy
Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales

Trade, political institutions and legal Innovation: The birth of the corporation in Amsterdam
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Enrico Perotti

Anti-Semitism in Germany and the geography of hate
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

Social structure and development: A legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan, and James A. Robinson

The Pale of Jewish settlement and persistent anti-market culture
Irena Grosfeld and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

The long lasting political legacy of the Nazi occupation of Italy
Nicola Fontana, Tommaso Nannicini, and Guido Tabellini

The effect of Communism on attitudes and beliefs
Alberto Alesina and Nicola Fuchs- Schündeln