<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jevan Cherniwchan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Juan Moreno-Cruz</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maize and Precolonial Africa</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Development Economics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387818303195?via%3Dihub</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">136</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">137-150</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study a largely overlooked part of this&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Columbian Exchange&lt;/em&gt;: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/population-density&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Population Density from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;population density&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and slave exports in precolonial Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/economic-growth&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Economic Growth from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot;&gt;economic growth&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or reduced conflict. Our results suggest that rather than stimulating development, the introduction of maize simply increased the supply of slaves during the slave trades.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">jan</style></issue></record></records></xml>