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Montag | 14.00 Uhr | Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night Lights Data Special Lecture Prof. Priyaranjan Jha, University of California, Irvine (USA), Department of Economics In this talk Prof. Jha looks at the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per capita income, he finds that modern districts that were historically under direct British rule had 39.47% less nightlights per capita in 1993 relative to modern districts that were historically under indirect British rule. The large gap persists even after including other controls such as educational attainment, health, and physical infrastructure. Looking at the growth pattern during 1993 to 2013, directly ruled districts had a 1.84% lower annual growth rate compared to indirectly ruled districts. Also, directly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 2% per year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas under indirect rule and direct rule can be accounted for by the adverse effect of the landlord-based revenue collection system in the directly ruled areas. Streaming / Video URL https://Zoom link, https://bit.ly/36TyGjC; Meeting Id: 825 2981 8057; Passcode: 146692 Adresse CATS Gebäude 4010, Raum 010.01.05 (Great Lecture Hall) Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/sai/pol/team/v_jha_poster_edited.pdf Veranstalter Abteilung Politikwissenschaft Homepage Veranstalter http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/sai/pol/index.html Kontakt |