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