{"id":1987,"date":"2015-04-23T06:19:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2015-04-23T06:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:20:51","slug":"persistent-effects-of-historical-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Persistent effects of historical shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vibrant research program in political economy today studies the persistent effects of historical &#8220;shocks,&#8221; such as colonial era institutional interventions like forced labor or missionary education.  Many of these studies are great, showing careful attention to both historical detail and nuances of causal identification.  A great example is a paper that Felipe Valencia Caicedo presented in our department seminar this week of the persistent effects of colonial era missionary education in the Guarani regions of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.as.nyu.edu\/object\/io_Valencia.html\">[link]<\/a>. (The bibliography to that paper lists many other really good examples.) That said, I am often left wanting more in terms of an explanation for such persistence.  Such papers sometimes reference cultural transmission models <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econ.nyu.edu\/user\/bisina\/Palgrave_culturaltransmission2.pdf\">[link]<\/a>, but in these cases, the papers often leave unclear why culture is not transmitted &#8220;horizontally,&#8221; for example through mimicry of success.  Why doesn&#8217;t this happen?  Evolutionary models of persistence typically reference &#8220;increasing returns&#8221; (and the mirror image, &#8220;traps&#8221;) <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/chapters\/p7610.html\">[link]<\/a>. In that spirit, what is the role of processes of agglomeration or more political in spirit, the accumulation of resources that can be used to defend privilege?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vibrant research program in political economy today studies the persistent effects of historical &#8220;shocks,&#8221; such as colonial era institutional interventions like forced labor or missionary education. Many of these studies are great, showing careful attention to both historical detail and nuances of causal identification. A great example is a paper that Felipe Valencia Caicedo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Persistent effects of historical shocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}