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Article: The African Slave Trade and Modern Household Finance

TitleThe African Slave Trade and Modern Household Finance
Authors
Levine, RLin, CXie, W
Issue Date2020
PublisherWiley for Royal Economic Society. The Journal's web site is located at https://academic.oup.com/ej
Citation
The Economic Journal, 2020, v. 130 n. 630, p. 1817-1841 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa015
AbstractWe evaluate the impact of the African slave trade between 1400 and 1900 on modern household finance. Exploiting cross-country and cross-ethnic group differences in the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa, we find that slave exports during the 1400–1900 period are negatively associated with current measures of household (a) access to financial services, (b) access to credit, (c) use of mobile finance, and (d) trust in financial institutions, suggesting that the slave trade has had an enduring, deleterious effect on household finance.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282478
ISSN
0013-0133
2021 Impact Factor: 3.721
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.683
ISI Accession Number ID
WOS:000582320100012

 

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dc.contributor.authorLevine, R-
dc.contributor.authorLin, C-
dc.contributor.authorXie, W-
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-15T05:28:38Z-
dc.date.available2020-05-15T05:28:38Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationThe Economic Journal, 2020, v. 130 n. 630, p. 1817-1841-
dc.identifier.issn0013-0133-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282478-
dc.description.abstractWe evaluate the impact of the African slave trade between 1400 and 1900 on modern household finance. Exploiting cross-country and cross-ethnic group differences in the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa, we find that slave exports during the 1400–1900 period are negatively associated with current measures of household (a) access to financial services, (b) access to credit, (c) use of mobile finance, and (d) trust in financial institutions, suggesting that the slave trade has had an enduring, deleterious effect on household finance.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherWiley for Royal Economic Society. The Journal's web site is located at https://academic.oup.com/ej-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ej/ueaa015-
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