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

No 741, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N50 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2018-09
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