Gupta, Abhimanyu and Halket, Jonathan (2023) Household sorting in an ancient setting. Journal of Urban Economics, 135. p. 103548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2023.103548
Gupta, Abhimanyu and Halket, Jonathan (2023) Household sorting in an ancient setting. Journal of Urban Economics, 135. p. 103548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2023.103548
Gupta, Abhimanyu and Halket, Jonathan (2023) Household sorting in an ancient setting. Journal of Urban Economics, 135. p. 103548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2023.103548
Abstract
We use archaeological data from ancient settlements of three different historical eras on a Greek island to construct novel measures of consumption. Using these, we show that the shares of high-quality consumption goods were relatively more concentrated closer to the center of nucleated settlements as compared to low-quality consumption goods. There is no such pattern in a placebo settlement. In this unique setting, these quality gradients may reflect differences in household consumption baskets across these settlements. We argue that some alternative, trade or production based hypotheses for such gradients can be weakly ruled out based on our data and archaeological sources.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Spatial sorting; Luxury goods; Archaeology; Urban |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2023 16:07 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:43 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35034 |
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