作者：Alvarez-Palau, Eduard J.; Bogart, Dan; Satchell, Max; Shaw-Taylor, Leigh
作者单位：UOC Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Cambridge
摘要：The Industrial Revolution led to dramatic economic changes that persist to the present. This paper focuses on urban areas in England and Wales, the birthplace of the First Industrial Revolution, and the role of early transport improvements, like improving rivers and roads, building canals and reducing sailing costs. We estimate how much inter-urban freight transport costs declined from all such innovations between 1680 and 1830 using a new multi-modal transport model. We find that relative to ...
作者：Desmet, Klaus; Ortin, Ignacio Ortuno; Ozak, Omer
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper analyses whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct ethnolinguistic identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for the entire globe, we predict the propensity to secede of 3,153 subnational regions in 177 countries. We validate th...
