Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno, James A. Robinson

NBER Working Paper No. 18177
Issued in June 2012

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We are grateful to Josh Angrist, María Angélica Bautista, Daniel Berkowitz, Manuel Fernández, Ángela María Fonseca, Ana María Ibañez, Carlos Prada, Pascual Restrepo, and Victoria Eugenia Soto for their help with this project, and to the participants in the Journal of Comparative Economics Conference held in Pittsburgh in October 2011 for their comments. 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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