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dc.contributor.authorBrunt, Liam
dc.contributor.authorFidalgo, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-13T12:56:10Z
dc.date.available2018-12-13T12:56:10Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-13
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2577614
dc.description.abstractWe 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 Europe and the New World. Growth rates for rice (the primary southern crop) and dry land crops (the primary northern crops) were similar. We show that provinces were more extensively farmed when yields and population pressure were high, and that extending production put downward pressure on yields. Overall, Chinese farmers avoided the problem of agricultural involution by efficiently boosting output at the extensive margin, not the intensive margin.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherInstitutt for samfunnsøkonominb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDP SAM;27/2018
dc.subjectAgricultural involution, productivity, growthnb_NO
dc.titleFeeding the people: grain yields and agricultural expansion in Qing Chinanb_NO
dc.typeWorking papernb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200nb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber19nb_NO


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