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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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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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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies
Nam, Chang-woon - 2002
The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NICs Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In these countries the overall economic performance was significantly determined by the industrial development triggered by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409015
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Measuring social preferences in developing economies
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Leveley, Ian - 2023
For the past two decades, studies measuring social preferences in developing settings have played an important role in building our understanding of economic development and poverty. This book chapter reviews lab-in-the-field experiments that measure social preferences, summarizes categories of...
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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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Black and white Body Mass Index values in developing 19th century Nebraska
Carson, Scott Alan - 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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Technology transfer and early industrial development : evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022
This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project...
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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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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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