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The long-term effects of the slave trade on political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Comparative Economics ( IF 2.429 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2021.02.004
Yu Zhang , Zhicheng Phil Xu , Shahriar Kibriya

This study investigates the long-term legacy of the slave trade on contemporary violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Using a geo-coded disaggregated dataset and exploiting within-country variation in slave trade intensity, we document a robust positive relationship between slave exports and contemporary conflict; the slave trade has long-lasting impacts on ethnic conflict and riots in particular. We examine the mechanisms underlying this persistence and find that the slave trade has weakened national identity, leading to a higher risk of ethnic conflict, and has also undermined economic development, which partly explains the relationship between the slave trade and riots. Furthermore, using the individual attitudes from the Afrobarometer survey, we show that the impact of the slave trade on national identity is mostly attributed to the inherited beliefs and norms rather than the external environment.



中文翻译:

奴隶贸易对撒哈拉以南非洲政治暴力的长期影响

这项研究调查了奴隶贸易对撒哈拉以南非洲当代暴力的长期影响。使用地理编码的分类数据集并利用国内奴隶贸易强度的变化,我们记录了奴隶出口与当代冲突之间强大的正相关关系;奴隶贸易对种族冲突,尤其是骚乱有着长期的影响。我们研究了这种持续存在的机制,发现奴隶贸易削弱了民族认同,导致民族冲突的风险更高,也破坏了经济发展,这在一定程度上解释了奴隶贸易与骚乱之间的关系。此外,利用非洲晴雨表调查中的个人态度,

更新日期:2021-03-15
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