Quantitative economic geography meets history

Dávid Krisztián Nagy reviews the methods and challenges of using quantitative geographical economics to study historical questions.
Dávid Krisztián Nagy reviews the methods and challenges of using quantitative geographical economics to study historical questions.
Paolo Buonanno, Elena Esposito and Giorgio Gulino found that malaria affected where people settled and also how and what they farmed.
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol show a relevant effect of the skills of first colonizers on long-run levels of development in Latin America.
Laura Mayoral and Ola Olsson explore early state development using Ancient Egypt as a laboratory.