The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World
Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of pre-colonial population density,...
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AIR AIR CONDITIONING AIR TRANSPORT ARTISANS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOMES AVERAGE SHARE BANKRUPTCY BASIC NEEDS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CENSUSES CIVIL WAR COMMERCE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONCENTRATION OF POPULATION COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CURRENT POPULATION DATA SET DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRAINAGE DRIVING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMICS RESEARCH ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL RESULTS EXISTING POPULATION EXPLANATORY POWER EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FARMING AREAS FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD PRODUCTION FUEL FUNCTIONAL FORM FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GEOGRAPHICAL CONTROLS GROWTH DYNAMICS GROWTH RATES GROWTH THEORY HEAVY RELIANCE HISTORICAL DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT IMMIGRATION INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM INNOVATION INSTITUTION LABOR FORCE LAND TENURE LARGE POPULATION LARGE POPULATIONS LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL ECONOMY LOCALIZATION MACROECONOMICS MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MARKET SHARE MEAN VALUE MIDDLEMEN MODE OF TRANSPORTATION MONETARY ECONOMICS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICIES NATIVE POPULATION NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NET EFFECT NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGIES OPEN ACCESS PATH DEPENDENCE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY CONSIDERATIONS POLITICAL POWER POPULATION CENTER POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION SETTLEMENTS POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RAILROAD RAILROADS RAILWAY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POPULATION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RESPECT RESULT ROUTE ROUTES SATELLITE SEA LEVEL SEX SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP SITES SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION TAX TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICY TRANSLATION TRANSPORT TRANSPORT SERVICES TRANSPORTATION TRAUMA TRUE TUNNEL VALUE ADDED WEALTH WEB |
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AIR AIR CONDITIONING AIR TRANSPORT ARTISANS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOMES AVERAGE SHARE BANKRUPTCY BASIC NEEDS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CENSUSES CIVIL WAR COMMERCE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONCENTRATION OF POPULATION COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CURRENT POPULATION DATA SET DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRAINAGE DRIVING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMICS RESEARCH ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL RESULTS EXISTING POPULATION EXPLANATORY POWER EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FARMING AREAS FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD PRODUCTION FUEL FUNCTIONAL FORM FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GEOGRAPHICAL CONTROLS GROWTH DYNAMICS GROWTH RATES GROWTH THEORY HEAVY RELIANCE HISTORICAL DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT IMMIGRATION INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM INNOVATION INSTITUTION LABOR FORCE LAND TENURE LARGE POPULATION LARGE POPULATIONS LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL ECONOMY LOCALIZATION MACROECONOMICS MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MARKET SHARE MEAN VALUE MIDDLEMEN MODE OF TRANSPORTATION MONETARY ECONOMICS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICIES NATIVE POPULATION NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NET EFFECT NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGIES OPEN ACCESS PATH DEPENDENCE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY CONSIDERATIONS POLITICAL POWER POPULATION CENTER POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION SETTLEMENTS POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RAILROAD RAILROADS RAILWAY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POPULATION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RESPECT RESULT ROUTE ROUTES SATELLITE SEA LEVEL SEX SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP SITES SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION TAX TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICY TRANSLATION TRANSPORT TRANSPORT SERVICES TRANSPORTATION TRAUMA TRUE TUNNEL VALUE ADDED WEALTH WEB Maloney, William F. Caicedo, Felipe Valencia The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6187 |
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Using subnational historical data, this
paper establishes the within country persistence of economic
activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The
paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of
pre-colonial population density, new measures of present
regional per capita income and population, and a
comprehensive set of locational fundamentals. These
fundamentals are shown to have explanatory power: native
populations throughout the hemisphere were found in more
livable and productive places. It is then shown that high
pre-colonial density areas tend to be dense today:
population agglomerations persist. The data and historical
evidence suggest this is due partly to locational
fundamentals, but also to classic agglomeration effects:
colonialists established settlements near existing native
populations for reasons of labor, trade, knowledge and
defense. Further, high density (historically prosperous)
areas also tend to have higher incomes today, and largely
due to agglomeration effects: fortune persists for the
United States and most of Latin America. Finally extractive
institutions, in this case, slavery, reduce persistence
even if they do not overwhelm other forces in its favor. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Maloney, William F. Caicedo, Felipe Valencia |
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Maloney, William F. Caicedo, Felipe Valencia |
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Maloney, William F. |
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World |
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persistence of (subnational) fortune : geography, agglomeration, and institutions in the new world |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16698910/persistence-subnational-fortune-feography-agglomeration-institutions-new-world http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12047 |
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okr-10986-120472021-04-23T14:02:59Z The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World Maloney, William F. Caicedo, Felipe Valencia AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AIR AIR CONDITIONING AIR TRANSPORT ARTISANS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOMES AVERAGE SHARE BANKRUPTCY BASIC NEEDS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CENSUSES CIVIL WAR COMMERCE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONCENTRATION OF POPULATION COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CURRENT POPULATION DATA SET DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRAINAGE DRIVING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMICS RESEARCH ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL RESULTS EXISTING POPULATION EXPLANATORY POWER EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FARMING AREAS FINANCIAL SERVICES FOOD PRODUCTION FUEL FUNCTIONAL FORM FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GEOGRAPHICAL CONTROLS GROWTH DYNAMICS GROWTH RATES GROWTH THEORY HEAVY RELIANCE HISTORICAL DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT IMMIGRATION INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM INNOVATION INSTITUTION LABOR FORCE LAND TENURE LARGE POPULATION LARGE POPULATIONS LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL ECONOMY LOCALIZATION MACROECONOMICS MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MARKET SHARE MEAN VALUE MIDDLEMEN MODE OF TRANSPORTATION MONETARY ECONOMICS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICIES NATIVE POPULATION NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NET EFFECT NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGIES OPEN ACCESS PATH DEPENDENCE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY CONSIDERATIONS POLITICAL POWER POPULATION CENTER POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION SETTLEMENTS POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RAILROAD RAILROADS RAILWAY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POPULATION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RESPECT RESULT ROUTE ROUTES SATELLITE SEA LEVEL SEX SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP SITES SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION TAX TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICY TRANSLATION TRANSPORT TRANSPORT SERVICES TRANSPORTATION TRAUMA TRUE TUNNEL VALUE ADDED WEALTH WEB Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of pre-colonial population density, new measures of present regional per capita income and population, and a comprehensive set of locational fundamentals. These fundamentals are shown to have explanatory power: native populations throughout the hemisphere were found in more livable and productive places. It is then shown that high pre-colonial density areas tend to be dense today: population agglomerations persist. The data and historical evidence suggest this is due partly to locational fundamentals, but also to classic agglomeration effects: colonialists established settlements near existing native populations for reasons of labor, trade, knowledge and defense. Further, high density (historically prosperous) areas also tend to have higher incomes today, and largely due to agglomeration effects: fortune persists for the United States and most of Latin America. Finally extractive institutions, in this case, slavery, reduce persistence even if they do not overwhelm other forces in its favor. 2013-01-02T20:49:39Z 2013-01-02T20:49:39Z 2012-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16698910/persistence-subnational-fortune-feography-agglomeration-institutions-new-world http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12047 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6187 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |