Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
No 741: Transition to Agriculture and First State Presence: A Global Analysis
Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson () and Louis Putterman ()
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Oana Borcan: School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
Ola Olsson: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O. Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Louis Putterman: Department of Economics, Brown University, Providence RI 02912, USA
Abstract: It has often been observed that the emergence of states in a region is typically preceded by an earlier transition to agricultural production. Using new data on the date of first state emergence within contemporary countries, we present a global scale analysis of the chronological relationship between the transition to agriculture and the subsequent emergence of states. We find statistically significant relationships between early reliance on agriculture and state age in all sub-samples. Our findings show that this relationship is not markedly different in cases where states were imposed from outside or when they emerged through internal origination.
Keywords: agricultural transition; state
32 pages, September 2018
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