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原文传递 The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World

题名：	The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World
责任者：	Maloney, William F.<=>Caicedo, Felipe Valencia
关键词：	Private Sector Development；E-Business；Health, Nutrition and Population；Population Policies；Poverty Reduction；Inequality；Economic Theory and Research；Transport Economics Policy and Planning；Macroeconomics and Economic Growth；Transport
学科分类：	交通运输规划与管理
摘要：	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.
出版机构：	World Bank
报告类型：	咨询报告
详细地址：	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16698910/persistence-subnational-fortune-feography-agglomeration-institutions-new-world
资源类型：	科技（咨询、行业）报告
初始创建时间：	2012-09
最新修改时间：	2017-12-13T08:45:27Z