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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

3304.999 - 3328.59 Jean-Paul Faguet

So a very long-winded way of saying that our instrument in this case is the path of the conquistadores through Colombia that they took founding all of these encomiendas. And then we measure the distance from each municipality to the closest point on that path. And that's our instrument, which we argue is highly correlated to where the encomienda is or was in 1560.

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