| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w27893
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 27893
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| Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State |
| Sara Lowes; Eduardo Montero
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| 发表日期 | 2020-10-05
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo Free State to examine the causal effects of this form of economic organization on development. We find that historical exposure to the concessions causes significantly worse education, wealth, and health outcomes. To examine mechanisms, we collect survey and experimental data from individuals near a former concession boundary. We find that village chiefs inside the former concessions provide fewer public goods, are less likely to be elected, and are more likely to be hereditary. However, individuals within the concessions are more trusting, more cohesive, and more supportive of sharing income. The results are relevant for the many places that were designated as concessions to private companies during the colonial era. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
; History
; Other History
; Development and Growth
; Development
; Growth and Productivity
; Other
; Culture
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27893
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585566
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Sara Lowes,Eduardo Montero. Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State. 2020.
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