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We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
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Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...
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location matter. The tools of the new economic geography are used to illuminate important episodes when the relative position …
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economic geography predictions over the long run. The evidence confirms the existence of a bell-shaped evolution of the spatial …
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Using data on name distributions in 95 French departments observed from 1946 to 2002, we investigate spatial and social mechanisms behind the transmission of parental preferences. Drawing inspiration from recent work on social interactions, we develop a simple discrete choice model that predicts...
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The purpose of this paper is to link the propensity for innovative activity to cluster spatially to the stage of the industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in...
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We examine the geography of UK cotton textiles in 1838 to test claims about why the industry came to be so heavily … concentrated in Lancashire. Our analysis considers both first and second nature geography including the availability of water power …
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We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Our analysis exploits geographical variation in city and coalfield locations, alongside temporal variation in the availability of...
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This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …
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geography and these institutions, we posit, is via the effect of transparency on the state's extractive capacity. We apply our …
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