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来源IDDP9819
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
URLhttps://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
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Kevin O'Rourke,Alan Fernihough. DP9819 Coal and the European Industrial Revolution. 2014.
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