Robert C. Allen
New York University
2 Papers
45 Citations
Robert C. Allen is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Latin Americans & Great Divergence. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications.
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The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:Â A Labour Market Approach
TL;DR: In this article, a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities was taken, and the authors found that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North American while only two times the WBPL in Latin American.
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Una de cal y otra de arena : building comparable real wages in a global perspective
TL;DR: Garcia Montero et al. as mentioned in this paper argued that the divergence between North and Latin America began early in the colonial period, and pointed out that despite its limitations, this methodology provides a solid, transparent metric to compare economic development across space and time.