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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
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Caveat Lector : Sample Selection in Historical Heights and the Interpretation of Early Industrializing Economies
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Much of the research on height in historical populations relies on convenience samples. A crucial question with … Bodenhorn, Guinnane, and Mroz (2013) to several historical samples of prisoners, freed slaves, and college students. We reject … findings suggest that much of the evidence on the "industrialization puzzle" during the nineteenth century could reflect …
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium : Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey
Case, Anne - 2008
We use nine waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to investigate the large labor market height premium … observed in the BHPS, where each inch of height is associated with a 1.5 percent increase in wages, for both men and women. We … find that half of the premium can be explained by the association between height and educational attainment among BHPS …
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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized …
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2008
, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
Clark, Gregory - 2008
For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...
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What Was the Industrial Revolution?
Lucas, Robert E, Jr - 2017
At some point in the first half of the 19th century per capita GDP in the United Kingdom and the United States began to grow at something like one to two percent per year and have continued to do so up to the present. Now incomes in many economies routinely grow at 2 percent per year and some...
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