Long-term effects of the Inca Road

Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastián; Lavado, Pablo

doi:10.3386/w28979

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“…This understates the true travel distance between borders and the road. Furthermore, the 28-km distance is outside the 20-km bandwidth used by Franco, Galiani, and Lavado (2021) in their RDD analyzing long-term effects of the Qhapaq Ñan. Supplementary Figure S13 further suggests that most treat-control borders are not especially close to the Qhapaq Ñan.…”

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“…81 Supplementary Figure S10 suggests that treated communities have been less likely to integrate into markets. 82 These communities may have also been economically stronger, giving them more power to make demands (Franco, Galiani, and Lavado 2021).…”

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“… See, for example, Díaz-Polanco (1998).2 This approach thus differs from empirical strategies that exploit distance to the Inca Road itself(Franco, Galiani, and Lavado 2021).…”

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Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America

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Why do some Indigenous communities experience assimilation while others obtain government protection for their long-standing institutions and cultures? I argue that historical experiences with state-led labor conscription play a key role. In the early twentieth century, Latin American governments conscripted unpaid Indigenous labor to build infrastructure. Community leaders threatened by this conscription were more likely to mobilize their communities to resist it. The mobilization of this collective action later empowered community leaders to achieve state protections for Indigenous institutions and cultures, or “accommodation.” I test this argument using a natural experiment where communities’ eligibility for labor conscription to build a 1920s Peruvian highway was as-if randomly assigned. I develop a measure of accommodation that considers both the existence and enforcement of laws protecting Indigenous institutions and cultures. I evaluate the mechanisms using data on Indigenous mobilization. The findings demonstrate how historical extraction shaped contemporary Indigenous–state relations.

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