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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa. A Replication Study of Nunn and Wantchekon (American Economic Review, 2011)

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  • Zanella, Giulio

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Nunn & Wantchekon (2011) detect a long-lasting impact of the slave trade on current trust levels across ethnic groups in Africa. They use data from Afrobarometer's wave 3 to construct trust measures. While I can perfectly replicate the original OLS and 2SLS findings in this wave starting from the same raw data, using data from more recent waves which were collected after the paper was published, I fail to replicate some of the paper's central findings. Plausible explanations are discussed

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  • Zanella, Giulio, 2025. "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa. A Replication Study of Nunn and Wantchekon (American Economic Review, 2011)," Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE), ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 4, pages 1-12.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:jcreco:318609
    DOI: 10.18718/81781.40
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    Trust; Culture; Development; Afrobarometer;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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