Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana; Morin, Miguel - 2019
are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history … say about its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification … with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydroelectric potential, we …