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State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

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We would like to thank Dionissi Aliprantis, Laure Athias, Sascha Becker, Karol Borowiecki, Nicolas Baumard, Davide Cantoni, Don Davis, Shari Eli, Oliver Falck, Oded Galor, Ed Glaeser, Claudia Goldin, Erik Hornung, Robert Johannes, Hubertus Kohle, Ruru Hoong, Michael Hutter, Bob Margo, Stelios Michalopoulos, Petra Moser, Nathan Nunn, Ömer Özak, Dominic Rohner, Stefanie Schneider, Munir Squires, Marco Tabellini, Mathias Thoenig, Daniel Trefler, Matt Turner, Hans-Joachim Voth, Fabian Waldinger, and participants at Brown, the Cleveland Fed, Cologne, Harvard/BU, LMU, Paris Saclay, Paris Dauphine, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, the University of Bristol, the University of Toronto, UBC, Warwick, and the ACEI 2023, the 2024 CUER-UBC workshop, ENS-PSL, the 2024 German Economists Abroad conference, the 2024 IEB Workshop on Urban Economics, the Microdata in Economic History Workshop, and the NBER SI for helpful comments. Leyi Wang provided excellent research assistance. We acknowledge the research support from the ORA Grant ES/V013602/1 (MAPHIS) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, Insight Grant 435-2025-0725).

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