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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309633
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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930 : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Insti...
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004
Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451502
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039060
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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A global compass for the great divergence : emissions vs. production centers of gravity 1820-2008
Sauter, Caspar; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - 2019
We construct the world's centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five …th century, after World War I for CO2 emissions, after World War II for GDP. Since then, both centers are moving eastward …
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Climate damages in convergence-consistent growth projections
Harding, Tony; Moreno Cruz, Juan; Quaas, Martin F.; … - 2023
Projections of climate change damages based on climate-econometric estimates suggest that, without mitigation, global warming could reduce average global incomes by over 20% towards the end of the century (Burke et al., 2015). This figure significantly surpasses climate damages in Integrated...
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World-trade growth accounting
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey K. - 2016 - This draft: March 2016
We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444883
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Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century
Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2018
market potential exhibits an upward trend across all regions of the world from the early 1930s and that this trend … significantly deviates from the evolution of world GDP. Finally, using exogenous variation in trade-related distances to world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882291
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Global trends in numeracy 1820-1949 and its implications for long-run growth
Crayen, Dorothee (contributor); Baten, Jörg (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641631
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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138747