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作者

Abhimanyu Gupta;Jonathan Halket

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.137,P.

语言

英文

关键字

Spatial sorting;Luxury goods;Archaeology;Urban;N93;R21

作者单位

Department of Economics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK;Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and CeMMAP, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Wehner Building, 4113 TAMU, 210 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77843, USA;Department of Economics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK;Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and CeMMAP, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Wehner Building, 4113 TAMU, 210 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77843, USA

摘要

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.