The Quarterly journal of economics, 2011-05, Vol.126 (2), p.593-650
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- THE POTATO'S CONTRIBUTION TO POPULATION AND URBANIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM A HISTORICAL EXPERIMENT
- Ist Teil von
- The Quarterly journal of economics, 2011-05, Vol.126 (2), p.593-650
- Ort / Verlag
- England: MIT Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the potato was responsible for a significant portion of the increase in population and urbanization observed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to our most conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato accounts for approximately one-quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900. Additional evidence from within-country comparisons of city populations and adult heights also confirms the cross-country findings.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0033-5533eISSN: 1531-4650DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr009Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_903661274
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- 18th century, 19th century, Agricultural development, Agricultural economics, Agricultural exports, Agricultural history, Agricultural land, Agricultural policy, Agricultural prices, Agricultural production, Agricultural productivity, Agricultural trade, Agriculture - economics, Agriculture - education, Agriculture - history, American history, Anthropology, Cultural - education, Anthropology, Cultural - history, Censuses, Cities, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Europe - ethnology, History of medicine, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Land suitability, North America - ethnology, Population, Population Dynamics - history, Population estimates, Population growth, Potatoes, Public Health - economics, Public Health - education, Public Health - history, Social Change - history, Social policy, Solanum tuberosum - economics, Solanum tuberosum - history, South America - ethnology, Studies, U.S.A, Urban populations, Urbanization, Urbanization - history, Urbanization - legislation & jurisprudence, Vegetable crops