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 History
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.
Political instability, state capacity and climate change in ancient times
Laura Mayoral and Ola Olsson explore early state development using Ancient Egypt as a laboratory.
The benefits of industrial espionage
Albrecht Glitz and Erik Meyersson present the first systematic evaluation of the economic returns to state-sponsored industrial espionage.
