Discussion paper
DP11865 Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting
exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France,
the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization
as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive
for human capital formation, generating wide-ranging gains in literacy rates and educational
attainment.
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