| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27503 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27503 |
| Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France | |
| Réka Juhász; Mara P. Squicciarini; Nico Voigtländer | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-07-13 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major technological breakthroughs tend to be adopted slowly and – even after being adopted – take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed in households, while production in plants only emerged with the new technology around 1800. This allows us to isolate the plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was initially highly dispersed. Over the subsequent decades, mechanized spinning experienced dramatic productivity growth that was almost entirely driven by a disappearance of plants in the lower tail. In contrast, innovations in other sectors (with gradual technological progress) shifted the whole productivity distribution. We document rich historical and empirical evidence suggesting that the pattern in cotton spinning was driven by the need to re-organize production under the new technology. This process of ‘trial and error’ led to widely dispersed initial productivity draws, low initial average productivity, and – in the subsequent decades – to high productivity growth as new entrants adopted improved methods of operating the mechanized technology. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Globalization and International Relations ; History ; Financial History ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27503 |
| 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/585177 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Réka Juhász,Mara P. Squicciarini,Nico Voigtländer. Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France. 2020. |
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