Keywords
Economía del Desarrollo, Historia Económica, Datos Antropométricos, Colonización, África, Development Economics, Economic History, Anthropometric Data, Colonisation, Africa
The influence of colonialism on Africa's Welfare: An anthropometric study
Abstract
Este estudio presenta nuevos datos sobre el desarrollo antropométrico de 47 países. ¿Influyó el colonialismo en el nivel de vida biológico de los africanos? Mostramos que los africanos perdieron estatura tras la colonización, incluso después de controlar una serie de variables y posibles problemas de sesgo de selectividad de la muestra. Analizamos varios tipos de colonialismo y descubrimos que tanto las colonias de asentamiento como las demás tuvieron un efecto adverso en la estatura de los africanos autóctonos durante el periodo de colonización.
This study presents new evidence on the anthropometric development of 47 countries. Did colonialism have an influence on the biological standard of living of Africans? We find that Africans lost stature upon colonization, even after controlling for a number of different variables and potential sample selectivity bias issues. We analyse various types of colonialism and find that both settler colonies and other colonies had an adverse effect on native African heights during the colonialization period.
This study presents new evidence on the anthropometric development of 47 countries. Did colonialism have an influence on the biological standard of living of Africans? We find that Africans lost stature upon colonization, even after controlling for a number of different variables and potential sample selectivity bias issues. We analyse various types of colonialism and find that both settler colonies and other colonies had an adverse effect on native African heights during the colonialization period.
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