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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution : a textual analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...

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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization … the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …

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Inequality of learning in industrialised countries

Micklewright, John (contributor); … - 2006

Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...

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Three revolutions of the modern era

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019

The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...

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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son … mechanisms through which industrialization might have affected relative survival of daughters. We find a significant increase in …

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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....

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Gender and industrialization: developments and trends in the context of developing countries

Sorgner, Alina - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …

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Catch me if 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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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor); … - 2008

cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. -- cultural assimilation ; cultural diffusion ; cultural diversity …

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