How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Charles Angelucci; Simone Meraglia; Nico Voigtländer (2022) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-122", tranche="tranche100")

Template assessment

The selected source is a medieval borough cross-section: parliamentary representation in 1348 on prior Farm Grant status and royal-borough status. There is no pre/post outcome clock.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.

The source regression was re-estimated on 549 observations before this assessment.