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Adam Smith, watch prices, and the industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

considerably above the growth rate of average labour productivity in British industry in the early nineteenth century. …

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Agricultural output, calories and living standards in England before and during the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2012

implications for trends in economic growth and nutritional status over time. It also offers some suggestions aimed at narrowing …

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"The best country in the world" : the surprising social mobility of New York’s Irish famine immigrants

Anbinder, Tyler; Ó Gráda, Cormac; Wegge, Simone - 2021

We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...

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Speed under sail, 1750-1830

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2017

We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping directly by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the British and Dutch East India Companies and Navies to estimate daily sailing speed in different wind conditions from 1750 to 1850. Against the consensus among economic...

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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014

Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit … change and economic growth stemmed from such human capital rather than Boserupian forces. They were the product of England …

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Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution : Prescot and beyond

Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

The role of skills and human capital during England's Industrial Revolution is the subject of an old but still ongoing debate. This paper contributes to the debate by assessing the artisanal skills of watchmakers and watch tool makers in southwest Lancashire in the eighteenth century and their...

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Safety at sea during the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac; Solar, Peter M. - 2019

Shipping was central to the rise of the Atlantic economies, but an extremely hazardous activity: in the 1780s, roughly five per cent of British ships sailing in summer for the United States never returned. Against the widespread belief that shipping technology was stagnant before iron...

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Political support in hard times : Do people care about national welfare?

Friedrichsen, Jana; Zahn, Philipp - 2012

. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is … skilled or not working. Our findings reinforce the political importance of employment and growth policies. …

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Europe's long-term growth prospects : with and without structural reforms

McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl - 2015

Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects …. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid … declining rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and weaker capital accumulation as areas for concern in an European …

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Banking networks and economic growth: from idiosyncratic shocks to aggregate fluctuations

Kundu, Shohini; Vats, Nishant - 2021

relationship between foreign idiosyncratic shocks and domestic economic growth between 1978 and 2000. Contemporaneous changes in … associated with a 0.05-0.26 pp increase in economic growth. Lastly, this can potentially explain the Great Moderation. …

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