A new study finds that wages, nutrition and schooling levels along a pre-Columbian road are all unusually high | Graphic detail
Yet Inca culture proved persistent. Some 10m people in Peru and nearby countries speak Quechua, the Incas’ language of empire, whose use the Spaniards discouraged. Peruvians still hand-weave textiles with bright patterns.
To test if the Inca road, the Incas’ main thoroughfare, has boosted modern living standards, the authors split the map into small squares. For four indicators of welfare—wages, nutrition, maths-test scores and years of schooling—they compared levels from 2007-17 in squares crossed by the road with those in neighbouring squares not on its route.
Might modern roads along the corridor explain more of that uplift in welfare than the ancient one? The scholars investigated that, too. The Inca-road squares do have twice as many kilometres of road as adjacent ones do. However, on average, even when comparing squares with similar densities of road, people living in those along the old route earned more money and had more years of schooling.
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