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The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2011

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Being Born under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life : Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Doblhammer, Gabriele; … - 2021

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...

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Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Franck, Raphaël - 2018

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

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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 … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphaël - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2021

cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of …

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