Exhibit 1191 ยท Journal article
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment
When these data issues are controlled for, the relationship between mortality and expropriation risk lacks robustness, and instrumental-variable estimates become unreliable, often with infinite confidence intervals.
Reanalyzes the settler-mortality instrument behind Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) and finds the relationship lacks robustness once data problems are controlled for. Abstract read (Crossref).
- Source
- David Y. Albouy, American Economic Review 102(6):3059-3076
- Date
- October 2012
- Quoted from
- Abstract
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.6.3059
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: CONTESTED line of work; keep in private notes. The authors replied in the same issue (reply not read). Gives the reason the page should cite A&R 2008 (a model) and not the 2001 cross-country result.