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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/ECCA.12004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2022
DOI: 10.1111/AEHR.12237
Abstract: Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long‐run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarises some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes covered refer to Europe, this survey points to literature across all continents. It highlights new developments, and points to gaps in the literature.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/09638280601056145
Abstract: To assess whether our measurement protocol using two raters simultaneously yielded reliable passive range of motion measurements of the hemiplegic arm. Additionally, motion ranges were correlated to several factors to examine the concurrent validity of these measurements. Two raters simultaneously assessed five arm motions at baseline, after five and ten weeks in respectively 18, 13 and 12 stroke patients. One tester made the passive movement and the other read the hydrogoniometer. Raters then switched roles. Intraclass correlation coefficients revealed high agreement between the raters with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) ranging between 0.84 and 0.99. Standard errors of measurement and smallest detectable differences were large for shoulder abduction. Significant correlations were found between shoulder external rotation and flexion. All arm motions correlated negatively to pain at the end range of these motions. Shoulder external rotation and flexion were significantly correlated to the time post stroke. Concurrent validity with Ashworth Scale, Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Barthel Index was limited. The current measurement protocol yielded high reliability indices and seems useful for further use. However, standard error of measurement and smallest detectable difference for shoulder abduction were high, implying the necessity to include a large s le size in future studies. Correlations revealed that restricted range of arm motions relate to the time post-stroke and coincide with pain.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-09-2023
DOI: 10.1002/MDC3.13860
Abstract: People living with Parkinson's disease (PD) have a high risk for falls. To examine gaps in falls prevention targeting people with PD as part of the Task Force on Global Guidelines for Falls in Older Adults. A Delphi consensus process was used to identify specific recommendations for falls in PD. The current narrative review was conducted as educational background with a view to identifying gaps in fall prevention. A recent Cochrane review recommended exercises and structured physical activities for PD however, the types of exercises and activities to recommend and PD subgroups likely to benefit require further consideration. Freezing of gait, reduced gait speed, and a prior history of falls are risk factors for falls in PD and should be incorporated in assessments to identify fall risk and target interventions. Multimodal and multi‐domain fall prevention interventions may be beneficial. With advanced or complex PD, balance and strength training should be administered under supervision. Medications, particularly cholinesterase inhibitors, show promise for falls prevention. Identifying how to engage people with PD, their families, and health professionals in falls education and implementation remains a challenge. Barriers to the prevention of falls occur at in idual, environmental, policy, and health system levels. Effective mitigation of fall risk requires specific targeting and strategies to reduce this debilitating and common problem in PD. While exercise is recommended, the types and modalities of exercise and how to combine them as interventions for different PD subgroups (cognitive impairment, freezing, advanced disease) need further study. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 17-07-2008
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the parents'. We find that children of more altruistic parents are more likely to become independent. However, first-order stochastic dominance (FOSD) shifts in the distribution of the child's future income (or her parents') have ambiguous effects on the child's residential choice. Parental altruism is the very source of ambiguity in the results. If parents are selfish or the joint income distribution of parents and child places no mass on the region where transfers are provided, a FOSD shift in the distribution of the child's (parents') future income will reduce (raise) the child's current income threshold for independence.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-11-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1002/PRI.1535
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-03-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2007
DOI: 10.1177/1536867X0700700104
Abstract: Based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption, matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated results with respect to deviations from this identifying assumption has become an increasingly important topic in the applied evaluation literature. If there are unobserved variables that affect assignment into treatment and the outcome variable simultaneously, a hidden bias might arise to which matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (Observational Studies, 2nd ed., New York: Springer), where mhbounds lets the researcher determine how strongly an unmeasured variable must influence the selection process to undermine the implications of the matching analysis.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2002
DOI: 10.1177/1536867X0200200403
Abstract: In this paper, we give a short overview of some propensity score matching estimators suggested in the evaluation literature, and we provide a set of Stata programs, which we illustrate using the National Supported Work (NSW) demonstration widely known in labor economics.
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 12-2010
Abstract: Employment at a multinational enterprise (MNE) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior studies rarely found wages to affect MNE employment. Our integrated approach documents salient labor substitution for German manufacturing MNEs and removes bias. In Central and Eastern Europe, most employment responds at the extensive margin, while in Western Europe the extensive margin accounts for around two-thirds of employment shifts. At distant locations, MNEs respond to wages only at the extensive margin. (JEL F23, J23, J31, R32)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1257/POL.5.4.29
Abstract: Researchers often estimate average treatment effects of programs without investigating heterogeneity across units. Yet, in iduals, firms, regions, or countries vary in their ability to utilize transfers. We analyze Objective 1 transfers of the EU to regions below a certain income level by way of a regression discontinuity design with systematically varying heterogeneous treatment effects. Only about 30 percent and 21 percent of the regions—those with sufficient human capital and good-enough institutions—are able to turn transfers into faster per capita income growth and per capita investment, respectively. In general, the variance of the treatment effect is much bigger than its mean. (JEL C21, F35, H23, H77, R11)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 05-2013
Abstract: The interplay between religion and the economy has long occupied social scientists. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance using 175 Prussian counties, presented in six waves from 1886 to 1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association between income and church attendance. The associations disappear in panel analyses, including first-differenced models of the 1886 to 1911 change, panel models with county and time fixed effects, and panel Granger-causality tests. The results cast doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2006
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506CRE1007OA
Abstract: Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of a contracture preventive positioning procedure for the hemiplegic arm in subacute stroke patients in addition to conventional physio and occupational therapy. Design: A single-blind pilot randomized controlled trial. Setting: Inpatient neurological units from three rehabilitation centres in the Netherlands. Subjects: Nineteen subacute stroke patients (minus two drop-outs) with a severe motor deficit of the arm. Interventions: All subjects underwent conventional rehabilitation care. Nine subjects additionally received a positioning procedure for two 30-min sessions a day, five days a week, for five weeks. Main measures: Passive range of motion of five arm movements using a hydrogoniometer and resistance to passive movement at the elbow using the Ashworth Scale. Secondary outcome measures were pain at the end range of passive motions, the arm section of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Barthel Index scores for ADL-independence. Outcome measures were taken after five weeks and additional measurements after 10 weeks by two assessors blinded to group allocation. Results: Comparison of the experimental ( n = 9) with the control subjects ( n = 8) after five weeks showed that additional positioning significantly slowed down development of shoulder abduction contracture ( P = 0.042, −5.3 degrees versus −23 degrees). No other differences were found between the groups. Conclusions: Applying a contracture preventive positioning procedure for the hemiplegic arm slowed down the development of shoulder abduction contracture. Positioning did not show significant additional value on other outcome measures. Since the s le size was small, results of this study need future verification.
Publisher: The Social Market Foundation
Date: 02-2019
DOI: 10.31273/978-1-910683-41-5
Abstract: Most, if not all advanced economies have suffered gravely from the 2008 global financial crisis. Growth, productivity, real income and consumption have plunged and inequality, and in some cases poverty, spiked. Some countries, like Germany and Australia, were better able to cope with the consequences but austerity has taken its toll even on the strongest economies. The UK is no exception and the more recent period of economic recovery might be halted or even reversed by the political, economic, and policy uncertainty created by the Brexit referendum. This uncertainty related risk to growth could be even greater if the UK leaves the economic and legal framework provided by the EU. This CAGE policy report offers proposals from different perspectives to answer the overarching question: What is the role of a government in a modern economy after the global financial crisis and the Brexit vote? We report on economic and social challenges in the UK and discuss potential policy responses for the government to consider. Foreword by: Lord O’Donnell of Clapham.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 02-04-2008
Abstract: Novel linked employer-employee data for multinational enterprises and their global workforces show that multinational enterprises that expand abroad retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. Propensity-score estimation demonstrates that the foreign expansion itself is a dominant explanatory factor for reduced worker separation rates. Bounding, concomitant variable tests, and further robustness checks show competing hypotheses to be less plausible. The finding is consistent with the hypothesis that, given global wage differences, a prevention of enterprises from outward FDI would lead to more domestic job losses. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among highly educated workers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.1017/DEM.2020.12
Abstract: We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We find that Jews live predominantly in towns. Villages and manors are substantially segregated by denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression analyses with county-fixed effects show that a larger share of Protestants is associated with higher literacy rates across all location types. A larger share of Jews relative to Catholics is not significantly associated with higher literacy in towns, but it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not explained by differences in literacy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 27-01-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780195390049.013.0005
Abstract: Max Weber's (1904) thesis that the Protestant Reformation was instrumental in facilitating industrial capitalism in Western Europe is generally viewed as the “most famous link between culture and economic development.” Weber suggested that Protestants had a specific work ethic that made them work harder and save more. In recent work, an alternative explanation has been proposed that receives strong empirical support: Protestants had higher human capital, which made them more productive and therefore increased their economic prosperity. This article explores the recent advancements in the economics of religion that assign a leading role to human capital in understanding the economic effects of the Reformation. It first provides a brief sketch of the underlying theory and then presents extensive evidence on the effects of the Reformation on human capital using data from nineteenth-century Prussia. The article also discusses consequences beyond education, covering effects on economic development as well as on the fertility decline. Evidence from outside Prussia, both across and within countries, is also presented.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 05-2020
DOI: 10.1257/AER.20181518
Abstract: We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and resettled (primarily) in the newly acquired Western Territories, from which the Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that, while there were no pre-WWII differences in educational attainment, Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated today than other Poles. These results are driven by a shift in preferences away from material possessions toward investment in human capital. (JEL I25, I26, J24, N34, R23)
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 05-2019
DOI: 10.1257/AER.20170279
Abstract: We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the coexistence of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants, using novel data from Germany for 1,000+ cities. The Catholic usury ban and higher literacy rates gave Jews a specific advantage in the moneylending sector. Following the Protestant Reformation (1517), the Jews lost these advantages in regions that became Protestant. We show (i) a change in the geography of anti-Semitism with persecutions of Jews and anti-Jewish publications becoming more common in Protestant areas relative to Catholic areas (ii) a more pronounced change in cities where Jews had already established themselves as moneylenders. These findings are consistent with the interpretation that, following the Protestant Reformation, Jews living in Protestant regions were exposed to competition with the Christian majority, especially in moneylending, leading to an increase in anti-Semitism. (JEL D74, J15, N33, N43, N93)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUBIOREV.2014.04.010
Abstract: Besides the continuous motor impairments that characterize Parkinson's disease (PD), patients are frequently troubled by sudden paroxysmal arrests or brief episodes of movement breakdown, referred to as 'freezing'. Freezing of gait (FOG) is common in advanced PD and typically occurs in walking conditions that challenge dynamic motor-cognitive control. Mounting evidence suggests that episodic motor phenomena during repetitive upper limb (e.g. writing), lower limb (e.g. foot tapping) and speech sequences resemble FOG and may share some underlying neural mechanisms. However, the precise association between gait and non-gait freezing phenomena remains controversial. This review aimed to clarify this association based on literature on non-gait freezing published between 2000 and 2013. We focused on clinical and epidemiological features of the episodes and their relevance to current influential models of FOG, including recent neuroimaging studies that used a non-gait freezing paradigm as a proxy for FOG. Although not capturing the full complexity of FOG, the neurobehavioral insights obtained with non-gait freezing paradigms will contribute to an increased understanding of disturbed brain-behavior output in PD.
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 12-07-2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.10.23292437
Abstract: Freezing of gait (FOG) is an episodic and highly disabling symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although described as a single phenomenon, FOG is not univocal and can express as different manifestations, such as trembling in place or complete akinesia. We aimed to analyze the utility of deep learning trained on inertial measurement unit data to classify FOG into both manifestations. We developed a temporal convolutional neural network, which we compared to three state-of-the-art FOG detection algorithms that were adapted to the FOG manifestation detection task. Next, we investigated its performance in distinguishing between the two manifestations and other forms of movement cessation (e.g., volitional stopping and sitting) based on gold-standard video annotations. Experiments were conducted on a dataset of twelve PD patients with FOG that completed a FOG-provoking protocol, including the timed-up-and-go and 360-degree turning-in-place tasks during ON and OFF anti-Parkinsonian medication. The results showed that our model enables accurate detection of FOG manifestations with an 11.43% higher F1 score than the second-best model. Assessment of FOG manifestation severity was moderately strong for trembling in place (Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC)=0.64, [0.16,0.88]) and strong for complete akinesia (ICC=0.87, [0.63,0.96]). Remarkably, our results show that complete akinesia can be distinguished from volitional stopping. In conclusion, we established that FOG manifestations could be accurately detected and assessed with deep learning. Future work should establish whether these results hold firm for a more extensive and varied verification cohort.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 28-09-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050720000443
Abstract: How did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policies? Contrary to the predominant and simplistic view that the system allowed the landed elites to capture most political rents, we find that members of parliament from constituencies with a higher vote inequality support more liberal policies, gauging their political orientation from the universe of roll call votes cast in parliament during Prussia’s rapid industrialization (1867–1903). Consistent with the characteristics of German liberalism that aligned with economic interests of business, the link between vote inequality and liberal voting is stronger in regions with large-scale industry.
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1162/REST_A_00708
Abstract: In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique microregional data set of 452 Prussian counties for 1816 to 1821 and 1869 to 1871, when religiousness was still pervasive. Exploiting the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg, our instrumental variable model finds that Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide. Results are corroborated in first-difference models. Tests relating to the two mechanisms based on historical church attendance data and modern suicide data suggest that the sociological channel plays the more important role.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-09-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2020
Abstract: This article analyzes Martin Luther’s role in spreading the early Reformation, one of the most important episodes of radical institutional change in the last millennium. We argue that social relations played a key role in its diffusion because the spread of heterodox ideologies and their eventual institutionalization relied not only on private “infection” through exposure to innovation but also on active conversion and promotion of that new faith through personal ties. We conceive of that process as leader-to-follower directional influence originating with Luther and flowing to local elites through personal ties. Based on novel data on Luther’s correspondence, Luther’s visits, and student enrollments in Luther’s city of Wittenberg, we reconstruct Luther’s influence network to examine whether local connections to him increased the odds of adopting Protestantism. Using regression analyses and simulations based on empirical network data, we find that the combination of personal/relational diffusion via Luther’s multiplex ties and spatial/structural diffusion via trade routes fostered cities’ adoption of the Reformation, making possible Protestantism’s early breakthrough from a regional movement to a general rebellion against the Roman Catholic Church.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 05-2020
DOI: 10.1257/JEP.34.2.143
Abstract: German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is already visible in many socio-economic characteristics in pre-World War II data. Second, World War II and the subsequent occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany before the building of the Wall in 1961. In light of our findings, we propose a more cautious interpretation of the extensive literature on the enduring effects of communist systems on economic outcomes, political preferences, cultural traits, and gender roles.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2011
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROSCIENCE.2011.07.030
Abstract: We recently found that spontaneous eye movements occur during motor imagery of hand movements, which are similar to those made during physical execution. In physical execution, eye movements have been shown to play an important role during training. In motor imagery practice, however, their effect remains unclear. Therefore, in the present study, we examined the role of eye movements during motor imagery practice with specific interest in the impact of task complexity and effector specificity. Thirty-six young healthy participants were tested before and after 4 days of visual motor imagery training on a Virtual Radial Fitts' task with different indices of difficulty. Training was performed with the nondominant hand only. Subjects were ided into a group that trained while spontaneous eye movements were allowed, one that kept the eyes fixed during training, and a control group. Electro-oculography and electromyography signals were monitored to guarantee task compliance during imagery. The results indicated that eye movements during imagery did not affect the temporal parameters of the trained movement. They did, however, help to achieve maximal gains in movement accuracy and efficiency. These positive effects on the spatial parameters were most pronounced during conditions with high accuracy demands and were present for both the trained and the untrained hand. These findings contribute to guidelines for optimizing training protocols based on motor imagery.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-07-2016
DOI: 10.1111/ECOJ.12220
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-11-2008
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9442.2008.00561.X
Abstract: Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, thereby evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county‐ and town‐level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871.
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 05-05-2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.05.23289387
Abstract: Freezing of gait (FOG) is an episodic and highly disabling symptom of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Traditionally, FOG assessment relies on time-consuming visual inspection of camera footage. Therefore, previous studies have proposed portable and automated solutions to annotate FOG. However, automated FOG assessment is challenging due to gait variability caused by medication effects and varying FOG-provoking tasks. Moreover, whether automated approaches can differentiate FOG from typical everyday movements, such as volitional stops, remains to be determined. To address these questions, we evaluated an automated FOG assessment model with deep learning (DL) based on inertial measurement units (IMUs). We assessed its performance trained on all standardized FOG-provoking tasks and medication states, as well as on specific tasks and medication states. Furthermore, we examined the effect of adding stopping periods on FOG detection performance. Twelve PD patients with self-reported FOG (mean age 69.33 ± 6.28 years) completed a FOG-provoking protocol, including timed-up-and-go and 360-degree turning-in-place tasks in On/Off dopaminergic medication states with/without volitional stopping. IMUs were attached to the pelvis and both sides of the tibia and talus. A multi-stage temporal convolutional network was developed to detect FOG episodes. FOG severity was quantified by the percentage of time frozen (%TF) and the number of freezing episodes (#FOG). The agreement between the model-generated outcomes and the gold standard experts’ video annotation was assessed by the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). For FOG assessment in trials without stopping, the agreement of our model was strong (ICC(%TF) = 0.92 [0.68, 0.98] ICC(#FOG) = 0.95 [0.72, 0.99]). Models trained on a specific FOG-provoking task could not generalize to unseen tasks, while models trained on a specific medication state could generalize to unseen states. For assessment in trials with stopping, the model trained on stopping trials made fewer false positives than the model trained without stopping (ICC(%TF) = 0.95 [0.73, 0.99] ICC(#FOG) = 0.79 [0.46, 0.94]). A DL model trained on IMU signals allows valid FOG assessment in trials with/without stops containing different medication states and FOG-provoking tasks. These results are encouraging and enable future work investigating automated FOG assessment during everyday life.
Publisher: CAGE Research Centre
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.31273/978-0-9576027-00
Abstract: It is conventional wisdom that: Continued fast growth in the BRICS will result in a rapid catch-up to match and even surpass Western income levels in the next few decades The crisis in Europe will soon be over and normal growth will then resume as if nothing had happened The tax competition resulting from globalization means a race to the bottom in which corporate tax rates fall dramatically everywhere The best way to escape the poverty trap is to give the poor more money Losers from globalization can be ignored by politicians in western democracies because they do not matter for electoral outcomes The adjustment problems for developing countries arising from the crisis are quite minor and easy to deal with Actually, as Reversals of Fortune shows, all of these beliefs are highly questionable. The research findings reported here provide economic analysis and evidence that challenge these claims. In the report, Nicholas Crafts asks: "What Difference does the Crisis make to Long-term West European Growth?" Vera Troeger considers "The Impact of Globalisation and Global Economic Crises on Social Cohesion and Attitudes towards Welfare State Policies in Developed Western Democracies." Stephen Broadberry looks at "The BRICs: What does Economic History say about their Growth Prospects?" Sharun Mukand takes "The View from the Developing World: Institutions, Global Shocks and Economic Adjustment." Finally, Sayantan Ghosal has a new perspective on "The Design of Pro-poor Policies."
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 07-2011
DOI: 10.1257/MAC.3.3.92
Abstract: Research increasingly stresses the role of human capital in modern economic development. Existing historical evidence—mostly from British textile industries—however, rejects that formal education was important for the Industrial Revolution. Our new evidence from technological follower Prussia uses a unique school enrollment and factory employment database linking 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Using pre-industrial education as instrument for later education and controlling extensively for pre-industrial development, we find that basic education is significantly associated with nontextile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution. Panel data models with county fixed effects confirm the results. (JEL I20, J24, N13, N33, N63)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-2013
DOI: 10.1093/EREH/HES017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-08-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-01-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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