Calendrier du 08 novembre 2017
Development Economics Seminar
Du 08/11/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
salle R2-01, campus Jourdan - 48 bd jourdan 75014 Paris
BHARADWAJ Prashant (UCSD)
Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India.
The partition of British India in 1947 resulted in one of the largest and most
rapid migrations in human history. This paper examines how areas affected by the
partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity
of the impact of the partition, and district level data on agricultural output
between 1911-2009, we find that areas that received more migrants have higher
average yields, are more likely to take up high yielding varieties (HYV) of seeds,
and are more likely to use agricultural technologies. These correlations are more
pronounced after the Green Revolution in India. Using pre-partition data, we show
that migrant placement is uncorrelated with soil conditions, agricultural infrastructure,
and agricultural yields prior to 1947; hence, the e?ects are not solely
explained by selective migration into districts with a higher potential for agricultural
development. Migrants moving to India were more educated than both the
natives who stayed and the migrants who moved out. Given the positive association
of education with the adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds we highlight
the presence of educated migrants during the timing of the Green Revolution as a
potential pathway for the observed effects.
Economic History Seminar
Du 08/11/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SCALONE Francesco (Université de Bologne)
Neonatal mortality, Cold Weather and Socio-Economic Status in two Northern Italian Rural Parishes from 1820 to 1900