Malaria’s long-lasting effects on land inequality in Italy
Paolo Buonanno, Elena Esposito and Giorgio Gulino found that malaria affected where people settled and also how and what they farmed.
Topic Archive: Economic Development
The Global Financial Resource Curse
Gianluca Benigno, Luca Fornaro and Martin Wolf offer a new perspective on the consequences of financial globalization, and on the appropriate policy interventions to manage it.
Colonial settlers and economic development in Latin America
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol show a relevant effect of the skills of first colonizers on long-run levels of development in Latin America.
Satisfaction Measurements and Relative Concerns: Evidence From Tanzania
Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell measure life and financial satisfaction across definitions of reference groups to understand the mechanisms through which comparisons work in a poor setting.
