relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2728/
title: The Economic Legacy of Warfare: Evidence from European Regions
creator: Cassidy, Traviss
creator: Dincecco, Mark
creator: Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano
subject: D901 Europe (General)
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: U Military Science (General)
description: Historical warfare in Europe inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. To reduce  such costs, rural populations relocated behind the relative safety of urban fortifications.  We argue that war-related urbanization had positive consequences for long-run regional  economic development. We geocode the locations of more than 600 conflicts in early  modern Europe. We find a positive and significant relationship between historical conflict  exposure and regional economic development today. Our results are robust to a wide  range of econometric techniques, alternative samples, and economic outcomes. Human  capital accumulation stands out as one channel through which war-related urbanization  translated into regional economic development. Our results highlight the military origins  of Europe’s wealthy urban belt
publisher: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
date: 2015-07
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2728/1/WP_2015_6_march.pdf
identifier:   Cassidy, Traviss and Dincecco, Mark and Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano  The Economic Legacy of Warfare: Evidence from European Regions.  EIC working paper series  #6/2015    IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.    (Submitted)