The long-run agglomeration effects of early agriculture in Europe

with Andrew Dickens, Brock University

Data Repository

Economic Inquiry 61, 2023, 629-651

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Statens uppkomst och jordbruket (in Swedish)

Ekonomisk Debatt 7, 2022, 27-37

Published by Nationalekonomiska Föreningen

Multiple steady statehood: the roles of productive and extractive capacities

Working paper version

Online Appendix

Replication files:
MATLAB scipt file (for simulation)
Stata do file and data (for empirical part)
Read-me file

Journal of Economic Growth 26, 2021, 113-152

Geography and state fragmentation

with Shuhei Kitamura, Osaka University

First page and abstract

Online Appendix

Earlier versions:

October 2017 (Online Appendix)

July 2016

January 2015

Journal of the European Economic Association 18, 2020, 1726-1769.

Understanding per-capita income growth in preindustrial Europe

Working paper version

Online Appendix

Replication files, read me file

International Economic Review 60, 2019, 219-240.

Time since what? (Re)interpreting the Neolithic transition in a Malthusian environment

In: Cervellati, M., and U. Sunde (eds.), Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, 2017, The MIT Press

Born free

Working paper version

Online appendix

Journal of Development Economics 121, 2016, 1-10. First article in volume

Statehood, democracy and preindustrial development

Online appendix

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 67,  2016, 58-62

Malthus in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 117, 2015, 1091-1133

Population, technology and fragmentation: the European miracle revisited

           Supplementary notes

Journal of Development Economics 108, 2014, 87-105

Violence and property rights

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37,  2013, 312-328

A dynamic theory of competence, loyalty and stability in dictatorships

             Matlab code

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Topics) 12, 2012

Pacifying monogamy

Supplementary notes on SCCS data

Supplementary notes to older version

Journal of Economic Growth 15, 2010, 235-262

From Malthusian war to Solovian peace

You may find this paper elsewhere with “Solowian’’ in the title. That is wrong. It should be “Solovian’’  even though the adjective obviously refers to Robert M. Solow. Go figure.

Supplementary notes

Replaces this paper, which is cited in Murat İyigün’s “Luther and Suleyman” (QJE November 2008)

Codes and data:

Matlab code for Figures 2-7 in the paper

Data for Figure 1(a) (csv) and the Stata code to make the figure

Data for Figure 1(b) (Stata) and the Stata code to make the figure

Review of Economic Dynamics 13, 2010, 616-636

Slavery and other property rights 

Earlier version (September 2006)

Supplementary notes to earlier version

Matlab code for simulation, Figure

Review of Economic Studies 76, 2009, pp. 319-342

Ethnic diversity, civil war, and redistribution

with Thomas Tangerås

Complementary notes

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 111, 2009, pp. 1-27.

First article in volume

From rent seeking to human capital: a model where resource shocks cause transitions from stagnation to growth

with Thomas Tangerås

Complementary notes

Canadian Journal of Economics 41, 2008, pp. 760-780

Per-capita income gaps across US states and Canadian provinces 

with Syed Basher

Journal of Macroeconomics 30, 2008, pp. 1173-1187

Long-run trends in human body mass

Earlier (longer) version

Supplement to earlier version

Macroeconomic Dynamics 11, 2007, pp. 367-387

Individual versus parental consent in marriage: implications for intra-household resource allocation and growth

with Lena Edlund

Working-paper version

American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 96, 2006, pp. 304-307

The Galor-Weil model revisited: a quantitative exercise

Matlab code to replicate Figure 10 in the paper

Review of Economic Dynamics 9, 2006, pp. 116-142

Sex, equality, and growth

Canadian Journal of Economics 38, 2005, pp. 807-831

Gender equality and long-run growth

For a richer but messier version of the model see “Can more gender equality lead to higher fertility?’’

Journal of Economic Growth 8, 2003, pp. 403-426

Mortality and early growth in England, Sweden, and France

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105, 2003, pp. 419-439

From Malthus to modern growth: can epidemics explain the three regimes?

International Economic Review 44, 2003, pp. 755-777

Endogenous fertility and the old-age security hypothesis: a note

Journal of Public Economics 64, 1997, pp. 279-286