The Effect of the Spanish Civil War on City Shares

González-Val, Rafael (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Silvestre, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper examines the effect of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) shock on city shares of population applying the methodology proposed by Davis, D. R., and D. E. Weinstein. 2002. “Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity.” The American Economic Review 92 (5): 1269–89. We make use of an unexploited long-term, historical dataset of populations disaggregated at the city level. Our instruments, a key methodological issue, are based on dead and wounded data collected by historians. We show that the effect of the Spanish Civil War on capital cities was temporary, and argue that the locational fundamentals theory is the principal explanation.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1515/peps-2021-0037

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Peace economics, peace science, and public policy 28, 1 (2022), 3-11
ISSN: 1079-2457

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 1.9 - Environmental Science (Q3) - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Q2) - Social Sciences (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.276 - Political Science and International Relations (Q2) - Sociology and Political Science (Q2) - Economics and Econometrics (Q3) - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/S55-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S16-ADETRE
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-114354RA-I00
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2017-82246-P
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-095529-B-I00
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-096640-B-I00
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/UZ2020-SOC-05

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)
Área (Departamento): Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. (Dpto. Economía Aplicada)