%0 Report
%9 EIC working paper series
%A Dincecco, Mark
%A Fenske, James
%A Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano
%D 2015
%F eprints:2738
%I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
%K Keywords: warfare, state development, fiscal capacity, civil conflict, Africa.   JEL codes: C10, H20, O55, N40, P48
%N 8
%T Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2738/
%X 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.”