Borcan, Oana, Olsson, Ola and Putterman, Louis (2021) Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis. Explorations in Economic History, 82. ISSN 0014-4983
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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 and also when we use alternative sources of data at different levels of geographical aggregation. A one millennium earlier transition to agriculture among non-pristine states predicts a 317-430 year earlier state emergence. We uncover differences in cases where states were imposed from outside or when they emerged through internal origination. The agriculture-state lag is on average 3.1 millennia in internally originated (including pristine) states, and 2.7 millennia in externally originated states. We also explore some of the mechanisms through which agriculture is believed to have influenced the emergence of states. Our results indicate that the rise of social classes was often an intermediate step towards the presence of early states.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | agricultural transition,states,history,economics and econometrics,sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1202 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2021 00:07 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2023 08:33 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80065 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101404 |
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