| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9819 |
| DP9819 Coal and the European Industrial Revolution | |
| Kevin O'Rourke; Alan Fernihough | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-02-09 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived measure as an instrumental variable: proximity to rock strata from the Carboniferous era. Consistent with traditional historical accounts of the Industrial Revolution, we find that coal had a strong influence on city population size from 1800 onward. Counterfactual estimates of city population sizes indicate that our estimated coal effect explains at least 60% of the growth in European city populations from 1750 to 1900. This result is robust to a number of alternative modelling assumptions regarding missing historical population data, spatially lagged effects, and the exclusion of the United Kingdom from the estimation sample. |
| 主题 | Economic History |
| 关键词 | Coal Geography Historical population Industrial revolution |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9819 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538655 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kevin O'Rourke,Alan Fernihough. DP9819 Coal and the European Industrial Revolution. 2014. |
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