Daniel Oto-Peralías
Biographic Data
| ID | 3082297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Oto-Peralías |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Oto-Peralías |
| SIGNATURE | OTO-PERALÍAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development
This paper investigates the consequences of delegating governmental authority to private actors through the study of lordships, a pivotal political institution in historical Europe. I first document a negative relationship between being a seigneurial town and central state capacity in ancien-regime Spain. Next, I focus on the Kingdom of Granada after its conquest by Castile in 1492 to leverage on that the initial distribution of lordships was con…
Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets
Street names are not neutral identifiers to navigate through cities but are charged with strong symbolic connotations and reflect power relations within society. A growing body of geographic scholarship documents a strong gender bias in the urban namespace, where women only represent a small fraction of streets named after people. This article investigates whether the lack of women in political decision-making roles contributes to explaining thei…
Tabulating and visualizing street-name data in the US and Europe
Street names constitute a rich source of data for quantitative analysis in social sciences. We gather and process street-name data from OpenStreetMap to create an accessible and readily analyzable street names database for the US and a large part of Europe. We also develop a web app to visualize the spatial distribution of street names and download the underlying data from users’ queries. These tools will continue to expand its geographic coverag…
Gendered cities: Studying urban gender bias through street names
This paper uses text analysis to measure gender bias in cities through the use of street names. Focusing on the case of Spain, we collect data on 15 million street names to analyze gender inequality in urban toponyms. We calculate for each Spanish municipality and each year from 2001 to 2020 a variable measuring the percentage of streets with female names over the total number of streets with male and female names. Our results reveal a strong gen…
Ancient colonialism and the economic geography of the Mediterranean
This article investigates the legacy of ancient Phoenician, Greek and Etruscan colonialism in shaping the economic geography of the Mediterranean region. Utilising historical data on ancient colonies and current data on population density and night light emissions (as a proxy for economic activity), we find that geographical areas colonised by these ancient civilisations have higher population density and economic activity in the present day. We …
Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain
What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data
Financial support by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland through grant number 70433 is gratefully acknowledged
Colonial Theories of Institutional Development
This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors argue that Great Britain and Portugal adopted an 'economically-oriented' style, which was pragmatic and sensitive to initial conditions. For this style …
What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data
Financial support by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland through grant number 70433 is gratefully acknowledged
Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain
Colonial Theories of Institutional Development
This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors argue that Great Britain and Portugal adopted an 'economically-oriented' style, which was pragmatic and sensitive to initial conditions. For this style …
What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data
Financial support by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland through grant number 70433 is gratefully acknowledged
Colonial Theories of Institutional Development
This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors argue that Great Britain and Portugal adopted an 'economically-oriented' style, which was pragmatic and sensitive to initial conditions. For this style …
Ancient colonialism and the economic geography of the Mediterranean
This article investigates the legacy of ancient Phoenician, Greek and Etruscan colonialism in shaping the economic geography of the Mediterranean region. Utilising historical data on ancient colonies and current data on population density and night light emissions (as a proxy for economic activity), we find that geographical areas colonised by these ancient civilisations have higher population density and economic activity in the present day. We …
Frontiers, warfare and economic geography: The case of Spain
Gendered cities: Studying urban gender bias through street names
This paper uses text analysis to measure gender bias in cities through the use of street names. Focusing on the case of Spain, we collect data on 15 million street names to analyze gender inequality in urban toponyms. We calculate for each Spanish municipality and each year from 2001 to 2020 a variable measuring the percentage of streets with female names over the total number of streets with male and female names. Our results reveal a strong gen…
Tabulating and visualizing street-name data in the US and Europe
Street names constitute a rich source of data for quantitative analysis in social sciences. We gather and process street-name data from OpenStreetMap to create an accessible and readily analyzable street names database for the US and a large part of Europe. We also develop a web app to visualize the spatial distribution of street names and download the underlying data from users’ queries. These tools will continue to expand its geographic coverag…
Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets
Street names are not neutral identifiers to navigate through cities but are charged with strong symbolic connotations and reflect power relations within society. A growing body of geographic scholarship documents a strong gender bias in the urban namespace, where women only represent a small fraction of streets named after people. This article investigates whether the lack of women in political decision-making roles contributes to explaining thei…
Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development
This paper investigates the consequences of delegating governmental authority to private actors through the study of lordships, a pivotal political institution in historical Europe. I first document a negative relationship between being a seigneurial town and central state capacity in ancien-regime Spain. Next, I focus on the Kingdom of Granada after its conquest by Castile in 1492 to leverage on that the initial distribution of lordships was con…
Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demography (2 works)