Nathan Nunn
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Canadian economist
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- Bachelors Economics Simon Fraser University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nathan Nunn is an economist and Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He is best known for his research on the long-term effects of slave trade on Africa. His research interests include economic development, cultural economics, political economy and international trade.
Nathan Nunn's Published Works
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Published Works
- On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough (2011) (1564)
- Relationship Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade (2007) (1556)
- The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa (2009) (1102)
- Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa (2007) (976)
- The Long-Term Effects of Africa&Apos;S Slave Trades (2007) (808)
- US Food Aid and Civil Conflict (2014) (719)
- The Importance of History for Economic Development (2009) (666)
- The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment (2009) (550)
- The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades (2008) (372)
- Historical Development (2013) (332)
- Historical Legacies: A Model Linking Africa's Past to its Current Underdevelopment (2007) (261)
- Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage (2013) (259)
- The Economics of Fair Trade (2014) (231)
- The boundaries of the multinational firm: an empirical analysis (2008) (226)
- Culture and the Historical Process (2012) (217)
- Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War (2010) (210)
- The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom (2015) (210)
- Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa (2010) (206)
- The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas (2010) (203)
- Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (2017) (166)
- Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: (2007) (165)
- Bride Price and Female Education (2016) (158)
- Incomplete contracts and the boundaries of the multinational firm (2013) (132)
- Immigrants and the Making of America (2019) (127)
- The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State (2013) (125)
- Fertility and the Plough (2011) (109)
- The Structure of Tariffs and Long-Term Growth (2010) (100)
- Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Gender and Missionary Influence in Colonial Africa (2014) (99)
- Africa's Development in Historical Perspective (2014) (85)
- Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War (2012) (74)
- The historical roots of economic development (2020) (72)
- Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (Iat) (2015) (66)
- Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations (2018) (51)
- The Effects of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica (2018) (51)
- Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration During the Age of Mass Migration (2017) (51)
- The Impacts of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica (Preliminary and Incomplete) (2014) (48)
- Slavery, Institutional Development and Long-Run Growth in Africa (2004) (48)
- Chapter 7 - Historical Development (2014) (46)
- Keeping it in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (45)
- Winter is Coming: The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900 (2017) (44)
- Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today (2018) (38)
- Economic History of Developing Regions (2018) (37)
- Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2020) (34)
- Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs (2017) (32)
- Bride Price and the Well-Being of Women (2018) (32)
- Bride Price and the Returns to Education for Women (2014) (31)
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Mistrust in Africa: An Empirical Investigation (2008) (28)
- The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World (2010) (25)
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa (2009) (23)
- Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa (2020) (21)
- Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa's Slave Trade (2010) (21)
- Putting the Lid on Lobbying: Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth When Protection is for Sale (2006) (21)
- Christians in Colonial Africa (2009) (21)
- Work and Women′s Marriage, Fertility and Empowerment: Evidence from Textile Mill Employment in India∗ (2014) (18)
- The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900 (2017) (16)
- The Legacy of Colonialism: A Model of Africa's Underdevelopment (2003) (11)
- After the Burning: The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (2021) (10)
- Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018) (9)
- The Imperial Peace (2014) (9)
- Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict (2021) (8)
- Aiding Conflict : The Unintended Consequences of U . S . Food Aid on Civil War (2011) (8)
- African Population, 1650–2000: Comparisons and Implications of New Estimates (2014) (7)
- Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence (2021) (7)
- Distrust and Political Turnover During Economic Crises (2018) (7)
- The Long-Term E↵ects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (6)
- Bride Price and the Returns to Education (2014) (5)
- Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (2020) (4)
- Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior (2022) (4)
- On the Dynamics of Human Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation (2022) (4)
- Rethinking Economic Development (2019) (3)
- Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-government (2016) (3)
- Innis Lecture Rethinking Economic Development* (2019) (3)
- Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018) (3)
- Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Introduction (2014) (2)
- The Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough ∗ ( Preliminary ) (2010) (2)
- On the Causes and Consequences of Cross-Cultural Differences: An Economic Perspective* (2020) (2)
- Domestic Knowledge Spillovers and Strategic Trade Policy (Preliminary) (2006) (1)
- Aiding Conflict : The Effect of U . S . Food Aid on Civil War ∗ (2013) (1)
- History as Evolution (2020) (1)
- A Model Explaining Simultaneous Payments of a Dowry and Bride-Price (Preliminary and Incomplete) (2005) (1)
- Bride & prejudice: the price of education (2016) (0)
- Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior (2022) (0)
- Nber Working Paper Series the Quality-complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia Weinstein and Many Seminar Participants for Helpful Comments; Kensuke Teshima, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Juan Ovalle for Excellent Research Assistance; And (2008) (0)
- WIDER Working Paper 2017/131 Bride price and the wellbeing of women (2017) (0)
- Restraining Ourselves: Helping by Not Hurting (2020) (0)
- The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 André Martínez-Fritscher Banco de Mexico (2010) (0)
- National-level The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State † By (2013) (0)
- Commercial Imperialism (2021) (0)
- Theoretical Note for “Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa” (2020) (0)
- Social Structure and Conflict* (2017) (0)
- Replication package for: Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (2020) (0)
- List of contributors (2021) (0)
- Fertility and the Plough The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2011) (0)
- Food Security and Infant Mortality∗ (Very Preliminary) (2009) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CONFLICT: EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2018) (0)
- The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict : Evidence from 1400-1900 ∗ ( First Draft ) (2015) (0)
- Analysing America’s age of mass migration highlights the long-term benefits of immigration (2017) (0)
- Supplement to “Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa” (2020) (0)
- Readings Lecture 1 : The Economic Impact of Western Penetration : the case of Protestantism (2014) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DISTRUST AND POLITICAL TURNOVER DURING ECONOMIC CRISES (2021) (0)
- Supplement to “Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa” (2019) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MALARIA AND EARLY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE SICKLE CELL TRAIT (2013) (0)
- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Boston Library Consortium Iviember Libraries Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions^ Association Annual Meetings for Comments. Acemoglu Gratefully Acknowledges Financial Support from The (0)
- From Rebellion to Electoral Violence: Evidence from Burundi (2019) (0)
- Maximal Lineage I Major Segment A B Minor Segment 1 2 3 4 a b c d e f g h Minimal Segment i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi (2018) (0)
- Science Journals — AAAS (2017) (0)
- Historical Roots of Its Underdevelopment Emmanuel (2014) (0)
- Economics from a Historical Perspective (2015) (0)
- Distrust and Political Turnover ∗ ( Incomplete ) (2017) (0)
- One of the few papers that consider a historical determinant of long-run conversion is by Murat Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa (2010) (0)
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