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Economic history

the argument that where European settlers faced high death rates they built extractive rather than protective institutions, with lasting effects on income.

In economic history, settler mortality hypothesis refers to the argument that where European settlers faced high death rates they built extractive rather than protective institutions, with lasting effects on income. This meaning comes from Acemoglu (2001) in American Economic Review.[1]

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Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2001). The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. American Economic Review, 91(5), 1369-1401. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.5.1369

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