This research evaluates the impact of the introduction of clover and potatoes on urbanization using a panel of Danish … market towns from 1672 to 1901. We find evidence that both clover and potatoes contributed to urbanization using a difference …-in-difference type estimation strategy which exploits that the breakthrough of clover and potatoes should have differential local effects …

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the … consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the … emerging trends and patterns of urbanization in the African LDCs within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on …

experienced higher urbanization after the heavy plough had its breakthrough, which was around AD 1000. We obtain a similar result …

number of mega-cities in the developing world. This has led scholars to believe that development and urbanization are not …). In particular, we first establish that, although urbanization and income remain highly correlated within any given year …, urbanization is 25-30 percentage points higher in 2010 than in 1500 at every level of income per capita. Second, while historically …