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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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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

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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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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...

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Banking and industrialization

Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 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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East side story : historical pollution and persistent neighborhood sorting

Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2016

Why are the East sides of former industrial cities like London or New York poorer and more deprived? We argue that this observation is the most visible consequence of the historically unequal distribution of air pollutants across neighborhoods. In this paper, we geolocate nearly 5,000 industrial...

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The nature of conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 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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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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