arXiv 16 Feb 2021 · General Economics · 8 citations (OpenAlex)
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In Historical Economics, Persistence studies document the persistence of some historical phenomenon or leverage this persistence to identify causal relationships of interest in the present. In this chapter, we analyze the implications of allowing for heterogeneous treatment effects in these studies. We delineate their common empirical structure, argue that heterogeneous treatment effects are likely in their context, and propose minimal abstract models that help interpret results and guide the development of empirical strategies to uncover the mechanisms generating the effects.
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| 1 | Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales (2016) Long-term Persistence | 1.000 | 7 | 3 | 100% |
| 2 | Imbens and Angrist (1994) Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects | 0.928 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| 3 | Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation | 0.874 | 11 | 2 | 100% |
| 4 | Ashraf and Galor (2013) The 'Out of Africa' hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development | 0.874 | 11 | 2 | 100% |
| 5 | Voigtländer and Voth (2012) Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany* | 0.874 | 8 | 2 | 100% |
| 6 | Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn (2013) On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough | 0.874 | 6 | 2 | 100% |
| 7 | Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa | 0.874 | 6 | 2 | 100% |
| 8 | Voth (2021) Persistence - Myth and Mystery | 0.737 | 3 | 2 | 100% |
| 9 | Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2002) Reversal of fortune: Geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution | 0.644 | 4 | 1 | 100% |
| 10 | Angrist and Pischke (2008) Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion | 0.644 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
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