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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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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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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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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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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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A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution I : Generating and Interpreting the Estimates
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2021
The history of England’s institutions has long informed research on comparative economic development. Yet to date there …
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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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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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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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