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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment / Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nunn, Nathan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15157.
- NBER working paper series no. w15157
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- 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 18th and 19th centuries.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2009.
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