RT journal article
T1 Y el tren arrolló la Arcadia: Un análisis económico y literario de la influencia del ferrocarril en los núcleos rurales asturianos, 1879-1911
T2 And the train ran over Arcadia: an economic and literary analysis of railway influence on rural Asturian settlements (1879-1911)
A1 Cañal Fernández, Verónica
A1 Gómez Martín, María
A2 Economía General
K1 Difference-in- Differences models
K1 industrialisation
K1 railway
K1 urbanisation
K1 ferrocarril
K1 industrialización
K1 urbanización
K1 modelos de diferencias en diferencias
AB The aim of this paper is to analyse, based on the novel La Aldea Perdida by Palacio Valdés, the impact of railway construction on the population, number of farms and number of businesses at parish level in the mining councils of Laviana and Langreo. Using the difference-in-differences (DID) estimator, we quantified the effect of access to the railway on these parishes for the 1879-1911 period. The sources used were the Nomenclature of Population Entities and the Bailly-Bailliére Yearbook of Professions, Trades and Industries. The results confirmed that the railway had a positive and significant influence on population and number of businesses, while the number of farmsteads decreased. This highlights how industrialization was urbanizing the population, something Palacio Valdés opposed from the very first pages of his novel.
PB Universidad de Murcia
SN 1139-1472
YR 2022
FD 2022-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31146
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31146
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026