| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20219 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20219 |
| Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment | |
| Mara P. Squicciarini; Nico Voigtländer | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-06-12 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Industrial Revolution has typically been assessed as minor. To resolve this puzzling contrast, we differentiate average human capital (literacy) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the historical presence of knowledge elites, we use city-level subscriptions to the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income, and industrial activity confirm this pattern. Initial literacy levels, on the other hand, are associated with development in the cross-section, but they do not predict growth. Finally, by joining data on British patents with a large French firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative industrial technology. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20219 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577892 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mara P. Squicciarini,Nico Voigtländer. Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment. 2014. |
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