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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154487
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Model-Based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study
Brunori, Paolo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M.; … - 2022
We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data- driven empirical approach. We explain health variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related behaviours. We do this using model-based recursive partitioning, a supervised machine learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083986
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Equality of Opportunity and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2022
Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in household income, physical and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088159
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946589
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The End of Destitution
Gazeley, Ian - 2009
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158047
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136945
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Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2020
environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836557
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iPEHD : The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Becker, Sascha O. - 2012
This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099741
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
Buser, Thomas - 2014
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … effect on young children's height and weight two years after gaining the cash transfer. Information on household expenditures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054609
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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079408