Yit Wey Liew
Biographic Data
| ID | 1222259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yit Wey Liew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yit Wey |
| FAMILY NAME | Liew |
| SIGNATURE | LIEW Y W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Economics & Finance, Sunway Business School Sunway University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2535-0387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colonial origins of agglomeration
This study examines how historical rail stations condition long-run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1-km cell level, we find that regions with earlier access to rail stations exhibit higher levels of economic activity today, owing to agg…
No prominent works on this page.
Colonial origins of agglomeration
This study examines how historical rail stations condition long-run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1-km cell level, we find that regions with earlier access to rail stations exhibit higher levels of economic activity today, owing to agg…
Archaeology (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economic Zones and Regional Development (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Economies of agglomeration (1 work) · Economy (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work)