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The U.S. Westward Expansion

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  • Guillaume Vandenbroucke

    (Department of Economics, University of Southern California)

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The U.S. economic development in the nineteenth century was characterized by the westward movement of population and the accumulation of productive land in the West. This paper presents a model of migration and land improvement to identify the quantitatively important forces driving this phenomena. Two forces are key: the decrease in transportation costs induced the westward migration, while population growth was responsible for the investment in productive land.

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  • Guillaume Vandenbroucke, 2006. "The U.S. Westward Expansion," IEPR Working Papers 06.59, Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR).
    • Handle: RePEc:scp:wpaper:06-59
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    • E1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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