CULTURE AND CONTRACTS: THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF FORCED LABOUR

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blouin, Arthur
• 署名单位: University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueab031
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 89-105
• 关键词: propaganda; ETHNICITY; IDENTITY; origins; nation; dutch

摘要

Can divide-and-rule colonial policy be responsible for contemporary ethnic tension? This paper empirically investigates the role of a divisive and extractive colonial policy on Hutu-Tutsi discord in Rwanda and Burundi. It shows that Hutu with a family history of subjugation to forced labour by Tutsi chiefs are less trusting of Tutsi today and less willing to partner with Tutsi for a cooperative task. This may have implications for agriculture insurance agreements because Hutu are more agrarian and Tutsi are more pastoral. Indeed, Hutu with a forced labour family history make fewer inter-household insurance agreements and are more likely to experience default.