Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the cape colony

Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the cape colony Erik Green, Professor at Lund University in Sweden, investigates the legacy of a settler colony by focusing on quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the Cape Colony. Institutions, commonly defined as the “rules of the game” in a society, play a key role in shaping a country’s ability to grow out of poverty. Given this, the variation in institutions across time and space in general and why growth-impeding institutions tend to persist, in particular, has received much attention among scholars in recent decades.