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Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2012

JAMES A. ROBINSON
JAMES A. ROBINSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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*Email: jrobinson@gov.harvard.edu
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Abstract:

I use the historical institutions of the Trobriand Islands to discuss problems and non-problems with measuring institutions and estimating their causal effects on economic outcomes.

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Comment
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 27 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2012

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