The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou

NBER Working Paper No. 17620
Issued in November 2011

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We thank Alberto Alesina, Maarten Bosker, Jeremiah Dittmar, James Fenske, Federico Finan, Horacio Larreguy Arbesú, Stathis Kalyvas, Janina Matuszeski, Ted Miguel, Nathan Nunn, Gregorios Siourounis, Neils Weidman, Andreas Wimmer and participants at the AEA meetings in Denver, Yale, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine; UC Merced, American University, Brown University, CERGE-EI and the NBER Political Economy, NBER Summer Institute Meetings on the Development of the American Economy and Income Distribution and Macroeconomics for useful comments and suggestions. All errors are our sole responsibility. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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