Blood, education and economic Development: How the 19th century wars in Latin America Foiled its economic development

IF 5.4 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107050

Jakob B. Madsen , Miethy Zaman

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Abstract

In this paper, we hypothesize that the prolonged wars in Latin America during most of the 19th century hindered human capital development and delayed economic progress well into the 20th century. Collecting novel data for the seven largest Latin American economies over the period 1820–2016, we show that the extraordinarily large share of military expenditure in total spending crowded out investment in education and R&D, which in turn had persistent effects on economic development.

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血液、教育和经济发展：19世纪拉丁美洲的战争如何阻碍其经济发展

在本文中，我们假设拉丁美洲在19世纪的大部分时间里旷日持久的战争阻碍了人力资本的发展，并将经济进步推迟到20世纪。我们收集了1820年至2016年期间拉丁美洲七个最大经济体的新数据，结果表明，军费开支在总支出中所占的巨大份额挤占了教育和研发投资，而教育和研发投资反过来对经济发展产生了持续影响。

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World Development Multiple-

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

5.80%

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320

期刊介绍： World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life. Contributions offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies.