Agriculture, diffusion, and development: Ripple effects of the neolithic revolution

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Are the Neolithic revolution’s effects still impacting incomes across the world today? I find strong support for this proposition using new, country-specific estimates of the timing of agricultural transition. While support with my data is slightly weaker than with the coarser data of Hibbs and Olsson (2004), I provide evidence that the differences are due to how technological diffusion is accounted for. A correction for world migrations since 1500 significantly improves the fit. Transition year also helps to explain income in 1500 itself, and an alternative measure of pre-modern development, state history, has similar ability to predict income in 1500 and 1997.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006-19

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: General, International, or Comparative ; Economic Development: General ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Agriculture: General
• Thema: economic growth ; agriculture ; transition to agriculture ; Neolithic Revolution ; Agrargeschichte ; Vorgeschichte

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Putterman, Louis
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Brown University, Department of Economics
• (wo): Providence, RI
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/80154
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ