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Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru

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The paper uses a unique hand-collected dataset of the prices at which the Spanish Crown sold colonial provincial governorships in seventeenth and eighteenth century Peru to examine the impact of colonial officials on long-run development. Combining provincial characteristics with exogenous variation in appointment criteria due to the timing of European wars, I first show that provinces with greater extraction potential tended to fetch higher prices and attract worse buyers. In the long run, these high-priced provinces have lower household consumption, schooling, and public good provision. The type of governors ruling these provinces likely exacerbated political conflict, ethnic segregation, and undermined institutional trust among the population.

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  • Guardado, Jenny, 2018. "Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 112(4), pages 971-995, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:112:y:2018:i:04:p:971-995_00
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    2. César Huaroto & Francisco Gallego, 2023. "The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Mining Mita, Persistent Social Unrest, and Cultural Divergence," Documentos de Trabajo 568, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
    3. Natividad, Gabriel, 2019. "Base tributaria y discontinuidades geopolíticas [Tax base and geopolitical discontinuities]," MPRA Paper 113169, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Christian Bjørnskov & Martin Rode, 2020. "Regime types and regime change: A new dataset on democracy, coups, and political institutions," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 531-551, April.

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