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Location and Technological Change in the American Glass Industry During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

Scholars have attempted to explain geographic clustering in inventive activity by arguing that it is connected with clustering in production or new investment. They have offered three possible reasons for this link: because invention occurs as a result of learning by doing; because new...

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...

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Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Levenstein, Margaret C.; Sokoloff, … - 2021

For those who think of Cleveland as a decaying rustbelt city, it may seem difficult to believe that this northern Ohio port was once a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cleveland played a leading role in the...

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Agricultural Seasonality and the Organization of Manufacturing During Early Industrialization : The Contrast between Britain and the United States

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Dollar, David - 2021

industrialization. Even before widespread mechanization, American production was almost exclusively from centralized plants, whereas the …

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The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization : Evidence from the United States, 1790-1846

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Khan, Beethika - 2021

cotton production, not the existence of slavery per se, that was responsible for the region's limited industrial development …

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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization : The American Case, 1820-1850

Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of … hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … develop seven propositions relating to the process of early industrialization. Data from two early censuses of manufactures …

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'Schemes of Practical Utility' : Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among 'Great Inventors' in the United States, 1790-1865

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 …

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Productivity Growth in Manufacturing During Early Industrialization : Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820 to 1860

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

during this stage of industrialization, and that much of its early productivity growth can be explained by changes in …

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Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America : Evidence from Patent Records, 1790 - 1846

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

activity was positively related to the growth of markets during early industrialization …

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Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization : Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2022

investment during early industrialization. Although several manufacturing industries, such as cotton textiles, depart from the … per unit of labor is also presented, serving to undercut the notion that the early period of industrialization was based …

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