DHCRG on Historical Persistence
Was the wealth of nations determined in 1000BC?
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1461:516
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In the upcoming DHCRG we explore the foundations of historical persistence arguments guided by Martin Efimoski (PhD student at UNSW Australia).
Please read one of the following papers (see recomendations inline):
Outline of method (if in doubt, read Dell, it's the paper that launched the thousand ships):
Dell, M. (2010), The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita. Econometrica, 78: 1863-1903. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA8121
Morck, R., & Yeung, B. (2011). Economics, History, and Causation. The Business History Review, 85(1), 39–63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41301369
Case studies (if you have a specific interest, check out one of these):
Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann, The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long‐Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy, The Economic Journal, Volume 126, Issue 590, February 2016, Pages 40–74, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12220
Andersen, R.F. (2018), Trust in Scandinavia: Findings from Moving Borders between Denmark and Germany. Scandinavian Political Studies, 41: 22-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12107
Dalgaard, C. J., N. Kaarsen, O. Olsson, and P. Selaya. 2022. “Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Infrastructure.” Journal of Comparative Economics 50 (4): 896–916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.05.003.