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Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2021

Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that...

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Information, coordination, and the industrialization of countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization: A quantitative analysis

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2012

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …

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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe

Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023

The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...

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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise

Becker, Sascha O. - 2019

Prussia's period of rapid industrialization. Contrary to the predominant view that the franchise system produced a …

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Trade Disruption, Industrialisation, and the Setting Sun of British Colonial Rule in India

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2020

Colonial trade encouraged the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this prevent in-dustrialisation in the colonies? And did lack of industrialisation, in turn, help to keep the colonies under control? To answer these questions, we examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade...

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Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development : Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project...

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Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence

Murrell, Peter; Grajzl, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling During the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from 19th Century France

Franck, Raphael - 2023

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of … exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines … that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high-school enrollment. However, industrialization …

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