Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Spatial correlations between summer ozone heatwave dual events and residents mental health in China. [PDF]
Zeng R +6 more
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Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations
Abstract This study examines how historical rail stations condition long‐run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1‐km cell level, we find that ...
Yit Wey Liew +2 more
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Multi-scenario simulation of land use change based on the objectives of cultivated land, ecological protection, and economic development in Yunnan Province, China. [PDF]
Tang W +5 more
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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The vulnerability assessment and obstacle factor analysis of urban agglomeration along the Yellow River in China from the perspective of production-living-ecological space. [PDF]
Yang L, Meng H, Wang J, Wu Y, Zhao Z.
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Goldilocks: American Precious Metals and the Rise of the West
ABSTRACT We estimate the contribution of the American precious metal windfall to Western Europe's growth performance in the early modern period. The exogenous nature of American precious metal extraction allows for the identification of monetary effects.
Yao Chen, Nuno Palma, Felix Ward
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Characteristics and causes of regional differentiation of ecosystem services supply and demand in Sichuan Province, China. [PDF]
Fang X, Ye F.
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Abstract Hierarchical agglomerative clustering is a useful analysis technique which allows for a level of stability, interpretability and flexibility not available in other similar techniques such as K‐means, density‐based clustering or positive matrix factorization.
Colin J. Lee +2 more
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Spatial-temporal distribution characteristics and influencing factors of immovable cultural heritage in Hubei, China. [PDF]
Zhang W, Ma L, Xu J, Peng Y.
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