| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19802 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19802 |
| Coal and the European Industrial Revolution | |
| Alan Fernihough; Kevin Hjortshøj O'; Rourke | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-01-16 |
| 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 historical 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 around 60% of the growth in European city populations from 1750 to 1900. This result is robust to a number of alternative modelling assumptions. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19802 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577476 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alan Fernihough,Kevin Hjortshøj O',Rourke. Coal and the European Industrial Revolution. 2014. |
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