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The Weight of Inequality : Variation with Industrialization and Wealth
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to cumulative net nutrition, therefore, does not fully...
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Black and White Body Mass Index Values in Developing 19th Century Nebraska
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013
Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...
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Banking and Industrialization
Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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Malthus and the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from a Time-Varying VAR
Rathke, Alexander - 2014
In the process of economic development economies grow through various regimes, each characterized by different demographic-economic interactions. The changes in these interactions are key elements in different explanations of the escape from Malthusian stagnation. We employ time-varying vector...
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877851
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Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States : Revaluating Net Nutrition During Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014360
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075128
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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers' productivity but also accelerated innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075976
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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