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The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England

Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 3, pp. 335-350

Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre … apprenticeship to secure training contracts. Premiums varied in response to scarcity rents, the expected productivity of masters and … access to apprenticeship training for youths from modest families. …

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Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780–1850

Baten, Jorg; Crayen, Dorothee; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) July, pp. 418-430

Using census-based data on the ability to recall one's age, we show that low levels of nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780 to 1850: cognitive ability declined among those born during the Napoleonic wars. The effect was stronger in areas where grain was expensive and...

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Colonization and development: The long-term effect of Russian settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s–2000s

Natkhov, Timur - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2015) 1, pp. 76-97

This paper exploits differences in the proportion of Russian settlers in the North Caucasus in the nineteenth century to estimate the effect of colonization on long-term development. The identification strategy relies on the fact that the primary purpose of Russian colonization was to protect...

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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain

Naidu, Suresh; Yuchtman, Noam - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 107-44

prosecutions. Following the abolition of criminal sanctions, wages differentially rose in counties that had experienced more … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …; restricted mobility allowed workers to commit to risk-sharing contracts with lower, but less volatile, wages. (JEL J31, J41, K12 …

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The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …

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Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution

Lindert, Peter H.; Nafziger, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Just how unequal were the incomes of different classes of Russians on the eve of Revolution, relative to other countries, to Russia's earlier history, and to Russia's income distribution today? Careful weighing of an eclectic data set provides provisional answers. We provide detailed income...

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Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 2-14

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental...

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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...

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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country’s Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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