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 …

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 hydro-electric potential, we find that the average ….3 percentage points and decreased the share of farmers by 2.1 percentage points. Electrification can explain 50.5% of the total …