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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa

  • Nathan Nunn
American Economic Review
vol. 100, no. 2, May 2010
(pp. 147–52)
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Citation

Nunn, Nathan. 2010. "Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa." American Economic Review, 100 (2): 147–52. DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.147

JEL Classification

  • F54 Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
  • N37 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: Africa; Oceania
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
  • O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
  • Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification