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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, 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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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019

This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...

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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

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Industry and identity : the migration linkage between economic and cultural change in 19th century Britain

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - 2024

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial...

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Manufacturing revolutions : industrial policy and industrialization in South Korea

Lane, Nathan - 2024

I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea’s heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973–1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies...

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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This version: April 30th, 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … subsequent decades. Nevertheless, early industrialization had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …

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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 … Industrial Revolution. -- human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …

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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...

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