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- doi: 10.1257/app.20140379
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Julia Cage et al., « The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1257/app.20140379
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This article investigates the long-term consequences of the printing press in the 19th century sub-Saharan Africa on social capital nowadays. Protestant missionaries were the first to import the printing press and to allow the indigenous population to use it. We build a new geocoded dataset locating Protestant missions in 1903. This dataset includes, for each mission station, the geographic location and its characteristics, as well as the printing-, educational-, and health-related investments undertaken by the mission. We show that, within regions close to missions, proximity to a printing press is associated with higher newspaper readership, trust, education, and political participation.