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Trade Disruption, Industrialisation, and the Setting Sun of British Colonial Rule in India

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2020

Colonial trade encouraged the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this prevent in-dustrialisation in the colonies? And did lack of industrialisation, in turn, help to keep the colonies under control? To answer these questions, we examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade...

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Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence

Murrell, Peter; Grajzl, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling During the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from 19th Century France

Franck, Raphael - 2023

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of … exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines … that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high-school enrollment. However, industrialization …

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A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution I : Generating and Interpreting the Estimates

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2021

The history of England’s institutions has long informed research on comparative economic development. Yet to date there exists no quantitative evidence on a core aspect of England’s institutional evolution, that embodied in the accumulated decisions of English courts. Focusing on the two...

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Stock market integration between three CEECs, Russia and the UK

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010

Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), specifically the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, and both the UK and …

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