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Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Vellore Arthi and James Fenske - 26 September 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

How have households in developing countries historically coped with shocks to their labor supply? Time is often the most valuable resource available to poor households, and its allocation across labor and other...
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Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems

Kleoniki Alexopoulou and Dacil Juif

Posted in Working Papers

The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local conditions is lively debated in the African economic history literature. In this paper we...
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Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African agency: Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940

Erik Green

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The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme in economic and agrarian history. The common approach is to identify either factor endowments...
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