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Why a rise in wealth ownsership did not accompany growth : the puzzle of primary inequality using french data (1800-1940)

Bourdieu, Jérôme; Postel-Vinay, Gilles; … - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2002

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Fertility versus productivity : a model of growth with evolutionary equilibria

Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2020

We develop a quantitative model that is consistent with three principal building blocks of Unified Growth Theory: the break-out from economic stagnation, the buildup to the Industrial Revolution, and the onset of the fertility transition. Our analysis suggests that (i) the escape from the...

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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); … - 2007

industrialization transforms the economic landscape. -- Endogenous Preferences ; Social Classes ; Industrial Revolution …

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Norwegian Gross Domestic Product by Industry 1830-1930

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2016

The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830-1930. Secondly, the new estimates suggest revision of the historical national...

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Crecimiento económico y transición demográfica: un modelo y el caso colombiano de los siglos XIX y XX

Posada, Carlos Esteban - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2013)

En este artículo se presenta la adaptación y el uso de un modelo de Lucas (2002) de crecimiento económico, transición demográfica y acumulación de capital humano, para interpretar la evolución demográfica y macroeconómica de Colombia en los siglos xix y xx. El ejercicio muestra la...

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The Fertility Transition in the US: Schooling or Income?

Hansen, Casper Worm; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; Lønstrup, Lars - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014

Schooling. This study estimates the respective contributions of schooling and income in determining the fertility transition within the US states between 1840 and 1980. While evidence suggests that both relationships are negative and statistically signi?cant, the most robust determinant of the...

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Long-run growth and the evolution of technological knowledge

Hakenes, Hendrik; Irmen, Andreas - 2007 - This Version: March 20, 2007

The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural break often associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embed the idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technological knowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...

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The quantitative importance of openness in development

Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2013

stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …

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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock

Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023

the transformation of low- and middle-income economies out of agriculture. In our main specification industrialization …

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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...

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