The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Grain Invasion

We are grateful to Princeton University, the University of Bristol and the University of Toronto for research support. We would like to thank Leah Boustan, Paula Bustos, Dave Donaldson, Doug Irwin, Chris Meissener, David Nagy, Chenzi Xu and conference and seminar participants at American Economic Association (AEA), AREUEA, Brown, CEPR CURE, CREI, Economic History Association, Harvard-MIT, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NBER Summer Institute, Northwestern, Oxford, Philadelphia Fed, Princeton, Paris School of Economics, Sciences-Po, Stanford, Toronto, Urban Economics Association (UEA), UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and U Pittsburgh. We also would like to thank Leigh Shaw-Taylor and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, the British Library and Paul Sharp for generously sharing data. Thank you also to Bobray Bordelon and T. Wangyal Shawa for help with GIS data. We are also grateful to Andre Alcantara, Devin Bissky Dziadyk, Mateus Ferraz Dias, Stephanie Hu, Maximilian Schwarz, Bingqing Yang, Gordon Yi and Yinou Zhang for excellent research assistance. Heblich and Zylberberg acknowledge the support of the ORA Grant ES/V013602/1 (MAPHIS). The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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