, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial …

hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … with industrialization. We conclude that factors with low relative productivity in agriculture were instrumental in the …. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of …

Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to … countries can generate variation in industrialization experiences similar to those found in the data, including premature …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …

Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity …

, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio … as servants in husbandry, where they remained unmarried until their mid-twenties. Where pastoral agriculture dominated …