Replication data for: "Old But Gold: Historical Pathways and Path Dependence"

Description

This replication package reproduces all tables and figures in "Old But Gold: Historical Pathways and Path Dependence." It contains the analysis-ready datasets (municipality, mining census area, and census wage microdata panels, together with auxiliary historical series on population, GDP, crops, railroads, and roads), the digitized shapefiles for colonial gold roads, least-cost-path instruments, administrative boundaries, and highways, and the R and Julia scripts that build the tables, regression output, and maps from these inputs. Running MakeFiles.R executes the full pipeline and writes results to tables/ and figures/.

Institutions

• University of South Florida

  Florida, Tampa
• Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

  Pernambuco, Recife
• Lusíada University of Lisbon

  Lisbon, Lisbon
• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  Pernambuco, Recife

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Funders

• Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

  Rio de Janeiro

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