Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using the matrix to adjust indicators of early development so that they reflect the history of a population's ancestors rather than...

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Published in:The Quarterly journal of economics 2010-11, Vol.125 (4), p.1627-1682
Main Authors: Putterman, Louis, Weil, David N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1500-2000
Ancestry
Bevölkerungsstruktur
Censuses
Countries
Descendants
Economic growth
Economic history
Economic inequality
Einkommensverteilung
Einwanderung
Ethnic groups
Ethnische Gruppe
GDP
Genealogy
Gross Domestic Product
History
Human migration
Income distribution
Income inequality
Inequality
Millennium
National income
Population
Population distribution
Population economics
Population genetics
Population geography
Population growth
Socioeconomics
Sozialgeschichte
Standard deviation
Studies
Welt
Wirtschaftswachstum
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