• Feeding the people: grain yields and agricultural expansion in Qing China 

      Brunt, Liam; Fidalgo, Antonio (DP SAM;27/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-13)
      We use modern econometric methods to analyze a recently-released sample of 3 000 Chinese grain yields. We find significant variation across provinces and persistent increases in yields over time – albeit slow compared to ...