Cliometrics in South AfricaFootnote¹

1 I would like to thank Willem H. Boshoff, Sophia du Plessis, Bokang Mpeta, Dieter von Fintel, the students of the 2018 postgraduate History class and seminar participants at the Stellenbosch Forum (28 June 2018) for comments on an earlier version of this paper. I apologise for any remaining errors of omission. The research reported here would not have been possible without support from the Department of Economics, the Faculty of Economic and Management Science's Elite Fund, and the National Research Foundation.

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