“The Curse of the Caribbean”? Agency’s Impact on the Productivity of Sugar Estates on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1814–1829

Smith, S. D.; Förster, Martin

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“…In the latter case, the authors state that a truncated regression model was used, but no further details are given. Smith and Forster (2013) apply MICE and 'hot deck' MI in a study of the technical efficiency of agent-managed versus owner-managed sugar plantations in early 19 th century St. Vincent and the Grenadines.…”

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The case for the use of multiple imputation missing data methods in stochastic frontier analysis with illustration using English local highway data

Stead

Wheat

2020

European Journal of Operational Research

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The case for the use of multiple imputation missing data methods in stochastic frontier analysis with illustration using English local highway data

Stead

Wheat

2020

European Journal of Operational Research

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The creative–destructive force of hurricanes: evidence from technological adoption in colonial Jamaican sugar estates

Huesler,

Strobl

2024

Cliometrica

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While in the early part of the nineteenth-century Jamaica was one of the world’s leading sugar producers, the abolition of slavery, the flooding of sugar markets with cheap European beet sugar, and the equalization and finally elimination of sugar import duties across the British empire led to a need for more efficient ways to produce sugar. However, it has been widely noted that Jamaica sugar estates were late in adopting more efficient production techniques, arguably due to inadequate financing. This paper investigates what role the destructive forces of hurricanes may have played in inducing Jamaica to finally modernize its sugar production. To this end, we combine a geo-referenced exhaustive data set of Jamaican sugar estates with a measure of localized hurricane damage constructed from historical hurricane tracks over the period 1882 to 1930. Our econometric analysis shows that hurricane strikes increased the probability that a surviving estate upgraded its sugar processing technology, particularly when the price of sugar was high and the price of the other main exporting crop (bananas) was low. Additionally, while a government hurricane loan programme working through local loan banks did help plantations to adopt new machinery, this depended on the damage not being too large.

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Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800

Graham

2019

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Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800 Levels of incorporation of joint-stock companies were far lower between 1790 and 1860 than in the American South, let alone New England and the British Isles, suggesting that slavery had a direct and proportional impact on patterns of incorporation and wider economic development. Examining the foundation of the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica between 1795 and 1803, the first joint-stock company chartered by a colonial legislature in the British West Indies, shows that potential entrepreneurs did not face legal or political obstacles, but rather a range of exogenous and endogenous economic factors arising in part from the conditions of a slave society which discouraged company formation. The effect may have been to exacerbate existing levels of economic backwardness in these islands by cutting off the supplies of capital needed for modernisation, thereby contributing to their underdevelopment.

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“The Curse of the Caribbean”? Agency’s Impact on the Productivity of Sugar Estates on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1814–1829

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

The case for the use of multiple imputation missing data methods in stochastic frontier analysis with illustration using English local highway data

The case for the use of multiple imputation missing data methods in stochastic frontier analysis with illustration using English local highway data

The creative–destructive force of hurricanes: evidence from technological adoption in colonial Jamaican sugar estates

Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800

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