Citations
“Measuring Institutions in the Trobriand Islands: A Comment of Voigt’s paper,” (2013) Journal of Institutional Economics, 9(1): 27-29.
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Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt’s paper
Abstract
I use the historical institutions of the Trobriand Islands to discuss problems and non-problems with measuring institutions and estimating their causal effects on economic outcomes.