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 deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …

from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …

go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …