The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach
通过测量殖民时期至独立期间美洲各城市的实际工资并与欧亚比较，发现北美长期是全球最富裕地区而拉丁美洲更穷，并探讨了移民、原住民人口和劳动制度等解释。
This article introduces the Americas in the Great Divergence debate by measuring real wages in various North and South American cities between colonization and independence, and comparing them to Europe and Asia. We find that for much of the period, North America was the most prosperous region of the world, while Latin America was much poorer. We then discuss a series of hypotheses that can explain these results, including migration, the demography of the American Indian populations, and the various labor systems implemented in the continent.