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Malthus and the industrial revolution : evidence from a time-varying VAR
Rathke, Alexander; Sarferaz, Samad - 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 impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution : evidence from 19th century France
Franck, Raphaël - 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
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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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
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Urbanization and growth : why did the splendor of the Italian cities in the sixteenth century not lead to transition?
Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2014
In this paper we investigate the relation between population, wages and urban population in the Italian economy. During the period examined, 1320 - 1870, the prevailing conditions were those of a poor, mainly agricultural economy with limited human capital and rudimentary technology. However,...
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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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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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