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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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