Add to ORKGHow does the historical legacy of agriculture affect democratic traditions in contemporary societies? This paper provides empirical evidence that inherent crop yield and democracy exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship. This finding is supported by cross-country data from up to 147 countries, 186 pre-colonial societies, and the U.S. states. The relationship thus exhibits a highly persistent pattern. Crop yield is measured by kilocalories per hectare per year under rain-fed conditions, which has the advantage of being highly exogenous. The hump-shaped relationship holds up to a battery of robustness tests
Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as t...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
Chapter 1 investigates the inverse relationship between farm size and agricultural yield. While ther...
History is important in understanding cultural traits and the quality of institutions across countri...
Despite a high cross-country correlation between development and democracy, it is difficult to gauge...
We show that societies with a history of irrigation-based agriculture have been less likely to adopt...
Today, the international community faces two major development challenges, how to ignite growth and ...
Increasing crop yields in an area we recently studied has helped keep farmers competitive and helped...
This paper proposes that societies with a rice farming legacy tend to be less democratic today than ...
We identify the agricultural inputs that drove the growth in global and regional crop yields from 19...
Agricultural policy is a key determinant of development outcomes and has large effects on global tra...
The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming increased land...
This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new dataset o...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2014. Major: Political Science. Advisor: John Fre...
Food security and land required for food production largely depend on rate of yield gain of major ce...
Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as t...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
Chapter 1 investigates the inverse relationship between farm size and agricultural yield. While ther...
History is important in understanding cultural traits and the quality of institutions across countri...
Despite a high cross-country correlation between development and democracy, it is difficult to gauge...
We show that societies with a history of irrigation-based agriculture have been less likely to adopt...
Today, the international community faces two major development challenges, how to ignite growth and ...
Increasing crop yields in an area we recently studied has helped keep farmers competitive and helped...
This paper proposes that societies with a rice farming legacy tend to be less democratic today than ...
We identify the agricultural inputs that drove the growth in global and regional crop yields from 19...
Agricultural policy is a key determinant of development outcomes and has large effects on global tra...
The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming increased land...
This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new dataset o...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2014. Major: Political Science. Advisor: John Fre...
Food security and land required for food production largely depend on rate of yield gain of major ce...
Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as t...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
Chapter 1 investigates the inverse relationship between farm size and agricultural yield. While ther...