eprintid: 2738
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 69
dir: disk0/00/00/27/38
datestamp: 2015-08-26 09:31:29
lastmod: 2015-08-26 09:31:29
status_changed: 2015-08-26 09:31:29
type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Dincecco, Mark
creators_name: Fenske, James
creators_name: Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: massimiliano.onorato@imtlucca.it
title: Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
ispublished: submitted
subjects: DT
subjects: HB
subjects: JF
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: imt_eic_working_paper
keywords: Keywords: warfare, state development, fiscal capacity, civil conflict, Africa. 
JEL codes: C10, H20, O55, N40, P48
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.”
date: 2015-08
date_type: published
number: 8
publisher: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
pages: 39
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
issn: 2279-6894
citation:   Dincecco, Mark and Fenske, James and Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano  Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development.  EIC working paper series  #8/2015    IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.    (Submitted)   
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2738/1/WP_2015_8.pdf