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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956802
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316306
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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … subsequent decades. Nevertheless, early industrialization had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021750
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century White Body Mass Index Values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
biological disparity by age. During industrialization, white BMIs were lower in Kentucky, Missouri, and urban Philadelphia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316044
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century U.S. White Statures
Carson, Scott Alan - 2009
Using a source of 19th century U.S. state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764739
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African-American and White Living Standards in the 19th Century American South : A Biological Comparison
Carson, Scott Alan - 2006
By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780298
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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315583
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Black and White Body Mass Index Values in Developing 19th Century Nebraska
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315766
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Nineteenth Century US BMIs by Race : Socioeconomics and Biology
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315848