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This document summarizes the key points of the paper "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development" by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. It finds that European colonies with higher mortality rates for settlers were more likely to develop extractive institutions. These institutions persisted even after independence and help explain differences in economic performance today. The paper uses settler mortality rates as an exogenous source of variation to instrument for current institutions an

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Jad Zoghaib

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