Sweden experienced a remarkable economic transformation between the 18th century and the outbreak of World War I. This dissertation consists of four self-contained papers that uses a quantitative empirical approach to identify key drivers of this transformation by analyzing the contribution of the potato to economic growth, the determinants of the early investments in mass schooling, and how the rollout of the national railroad network shaped rural and urban growth patterns from the mid-19th century to the present day. Together, the findings of this dissertation contribute novel evidence on the causal determinants of Sweden’s acceleration in growth and also shed light on the historical roots of contemporary patterns of regional and urban development.

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增长引擎：瑞典经济史上的论文

瑞典在18世纪和第一次世界大战爆发之间经历了显着的经济转型。本论文由四篇独立论文组成，这些论文采用定量经验方法，通过分析马铃薯对经济增长的贡献来确定这一转型的主要驱动力，这是早期对大众学校进行投资的决定因素，也是国家铁路网的推出如何影响从19世纪中叶至今的城乡增长模式。总之，本论文的发现为瑞典增长加速的因果决定因素提供了新的证据，也为当代区域和城市发展模式的历史根源提供了启示。