Indigenous Peoples and contexts have offered valuable insights to enrich management and
organization theories and literature. Yet, despite their growing prevalence and impact, these …

This paper discusses the rise to prominence of persistence studies, defined as studies that
use quantitative causal inference to link past events with later economic and political …

Is persistence a myth or a fact? In this chapter, I survey the literature on persistence in
historical economics. I first clarify some of the concepts, before presenting a classification of …

This article examines the long-term consequences of a historical human capital intervention.
The Jesuit order founded religious missions in 1609 among the Guaraní, in modern-day …

Little is known about the extent and forces of path dependence in developing countries.
Colonial era railway construction in Kenya provides a natural experiment to study the …

Domestic road programs are often justified on the basis of their presumed positive effects on
firms' exports and accordingly on firms' employment. In this paper we evaluate this policy …

Abstract Today, Latin American countries are characterized by relatively high levels of
economic inequality. This circumstance has often been considered a long-run consequence …

We find a relationship between geographic factors and numeracy in more than 300 regions
of Europe around the year 1900. We argue that the distribution of land ownership is a …

How persistent is public goods provision in a comparative perspective? We explore the link
between infrastructure investments made during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure …

Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors
underpinning US economic development success. This view relies on the “Pristine Myth” of …