The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development

摘要: I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that reported missing direct performance effects a measure such malaria prevalence are not robust to alternative specifications samples. Unbiased relative difficult obtain due lack independent instrumental variables. Conditional on restricted effect institutions, my suggest exhibits large negative impact Sachs (2003)