Arbeitspapier
The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development
I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of geography such as malaria prevalence are not robust to alternative specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my estimates suggest that malaria prevalence exhibits a large negative direct impact on economic performance, as postulated by Sachs (2003) and others.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1210
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Economic development
institutions
malaria prevalence
Entwicklung
Wirtschaftswachstum
Institutionelle Infrastruktur
Tropenkrankheit
Schätzung
Welt
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Gundlach, Erich
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW)
- (where)
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Kiel
- (when)
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2004
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gundlach, Erich
- Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW)
Time of origin
- 2004
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