Progress and poverty in early modern Europe

By Robert C. Allen. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging (2005, methodology): “Sources: 1500 estimate based on extrapolation from Allen (2003), 1830 United Kingdom estimate based on Webb (1963), later data from Crafts (2000) and World Bank (2002).”
Institutions, Human Capital and Development: Online Appendix (2014, unknown): “Literacy in Spain was much lower, around 10% (Allen 2003, p. 415).”
Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth? (2014, unknown): “85 Mokyr (2009); Allen (2003). 86 Reis (2005), Table 8.”
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, unknown): “At a more systematic level, crosscountry growth regressions for the period of industrialization lead to the conclusion that “literacy was generally unimportant for growth” (Allen, 2003, p.433).”
Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press (2011, background): “[5] Allen, Robert, “Progress and poverty in early modern Europe,” Economic History Review, LVI (2003), 403-443.”
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “Economic historians who disagree on almost all other issues concur that human capital investment was not important in the English Industrial Revolution (Mokyr,2009;Allen,2003).”
The role of human capital and innovation in economic development: evidence from post-Malthusian Prussia (2017, unknown): “…Revolution is generally considered as minor, especially in the case of the British industrial revolution (Mitch, 1993; Mitch, 1999; Clark, 2005) for which relative prices of production inputs (Allen 2003) or cultural factors (Clark, 2009; Mokyr 2009) have been regarded as the main determinants.”
The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia (2005, methodology): “We estimate urbanization levels as described in the appendix (based on Bairoch, 1976; Federico and Malanima, 2002; Allen, 2003).”