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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910
Logan, Trevon - 2008
This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and health on the migration propensities of...
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Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021
How much do sins visited upon one generation harm that generation's future sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239163
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2017
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … in the cross-section, but they do not predict growth. Finally, by joining data on British patents with a large French …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052500
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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development : Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030073
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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893135
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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers
York, Ben - 2014
Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044350
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Finance and Governance in Developing Economies
Morck, Randall - 2011
Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of externalities that otherwise lock in a low-income equilibrium, but runs afoul of well-known government failure problems. Successful Big Push coordination may occur instead when a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128601
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America … growth accelerated there over this critical century. The precocious poor periphery leaders underwent a surge and more poor … catching up? Productivity growth certainly made their industries more competitive in home and foreign markets, but other forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129186
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America … growth accelerated there over these seven critical decades. There was an acceleration by the precocious leaders and more poor …. Productivity growth certainly made their industries more competitive in home and foreign markets, but other forces may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138324