Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century

Johan Fourie and Joerg Baten

No 270, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often constrain investigations into the long-run determinants of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals in the Courts of Justice records in the Cape Archive, this paper documents, for the first time, the levels of and […]

Keywords: Africa; Asia; capital - human; Education; Healthcare; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N37 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-03-01
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