The Effect of the Spanish Civil War on City Shares

Rafael González-Val and Javier Silvestre

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2022, vol. 28, issue 1, 3-11

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) shock on city shares of population applying the methodology proposed by Davis, D. R., and D. E. Weinstein. 2002. “Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity.” The American Economic Review 92 (5): 1269–89. We make use of an unexploited long-term, historical dataset of populations disaggregated at the city level. Our instruments, a key methodological issue, are based on dead and wounded data collected by historians. We show that the effect of the Spanish Civil War on capital cities was temporary, and argue that the locational fundamentals theory is the principal explanation.

Keywords: war shocks; city growth; locational fundamentals; Spanish Civil War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N94 O18 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2021-0037

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