Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China

By Ruixue Jia. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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External Shocks, Internal Shots: The Geography of Civil Conflicts (2012, background): “…and crops prices have been found to be positively correlated with conflict by Dube and Vargas (2013), in the case of coffee prices in Colombia,6 and Jia (2011), who finds that droughts increased the probability of (sweet-potatoes-producing) peasants’ revolts in China using historical data over the…”
Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Civil Examination System (2020, background): “…technology,36 the previous 19 printing centers eventually went out of business (Reed, 2004).37 Against this historical backdrop we thus 35These were the two New World crops brought to China, crops that had an alleged effect on population growth and social conflicts (Chen and Kung, 2016; Jia, 2014).”
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict (2013, background): “2011‖# 1950–2004 Global Annual World ENSO Civil conflict Y Y Y – (51) Jia 2012 1470–1900 China Annual Province Drought/flood Peasant rebellion Y Y Y – (56) Kung et al.”
Conflict, Climate, and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis (2018, unknown): “[32] Jia, Ruixue, “Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China,””
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (2017, unknown): “The mean (and standard deviation) of Climatic instability is 0.25 (0.10).”
Can Cultural Norms Reduce Conflicts? Confucianism and Peasant Rebellions in (2014, background): “Similarly, Jia (2014) observes that the triggering effect of droughts on peasant revolts in historical China could be mitigated by the introduction of New World crops—specifically the sweet potatoes.”