“让他们吃蛋糕吧”:干旱、农民起义，以及法国大革命中对制度变革的要求

IF 2.3 1区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Growth Pub Date : 2023-07-08 DOI:10.1007/s10887-023-09230-y

Maria Waldinger

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摘要

本文研究了1788年的干旱是否影响了法国大革命期间农民起义的爆发。我构建了一个社区级别的数据集，其中包含1789年当地干旱严重程度和农民起义的信息。在干旱严重的地区，农民往往会发动反抗封建制度的起义。然后，我研究了干旱可能影响农民起义的机制。那些受干旱影响更大的人对制度改革的要求更高，这在不满清单中有所体现。这些结果为1788年的干旱对法国大革命的具体影响提供了证据，法国大革命是西欧民主化的一个里程碑。

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“Let them eat cake”: drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French Revolution

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“Let them eat cake”: drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French Revolution

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Communities with severe drought conditions more often experienced peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I investigate a mechanism through which drought may have affected peasant revolts. Those more affected by the drought had higher demand for institutional change as expressed in the lists of grievances. The results provide evidence on specific ways in which the drought of 1788 impacted the French Revolution, a milestone in the democratization of Western Europe.

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Journal of Economic Growth ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Growth, is designed to serve as the principal outlet for theoretical as well as empirical research in economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics. The editorial board consists of prominent researchers in the fields of economic growth, dynamic macroeconomics, international economics, urban economics, migration, and development, who are committed to academic excellence. Members of the editorial board are actively involved in the refereeing process of each paper and assure that the review process is of an exceptional quality. Furthermore, the journal commits itself to a timely response. The journal encourages the submission of high quality research broadly concerned with: Neoclassical Growth Models Endogenous Growth Models Income Distribution and Growth Human Capital and Growth Fertility and Growth Trade and Growth Development and Growth Financial Development and Growth Migration and Growth Endogenous Technological Change Money and Growth Political Economy and Growth Overlapping-Generations Models Economic Fluctuations. 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.032 (2008)* Subject Category ''Economics'': Rank 3 of 209 Officially cited as: J Econ Growth