@techreport{eprints2738,
          author = {Mark Dincecco and James Fenske and Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato},
       publisher = {IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca},
           month = {August},
            type = {EIC working paper series},
     institution = {IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca},
            year = {2015},
           title = {Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2738/},
        abstract = {We show that the consequences of historical warfare for state development differ for
Sub-Saharan Africa. We identify the locations of more than 1,500 conflicts in Africa, Asia,
and Europe from 1400 to 1799. We find that historical warfare predicts common-interest
states defined by high fiscal capacity and low civil conflict across much of the OldWorld.
For Sub-Saharan Africa, historical warfare predicts special-interest states defined by high
fiscal capacity and high civil conflict. Our results offer new evidence about where and
when ?war makes states.?},
        keywords = {Keywords: warfare, state development, fiscal capacity, civil conflict, Africa. 
JEL codes: C10, H20, O55, N40, P48}
}