Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel; Croix, David de la - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2013
We develop a model of technological progress and knowledge transmission in the Malthusian era. Given low literacy rates …, codified knowledge and formal education were much less important than today. Instead, most knowledge was directly acquired from … elders. In knowledge-intensive areas, this usually involved formal apprenticeships. We develop a model in which a market for …