Why England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during the Industrial Revolution

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How the West "invented" fertility restriction (2013, unknown): “By helping to stabilize incomes at a higher level by 1700, EMP may well have laid some of the foundations for Europe’s early transition to self-sustaining growth (Voigtländer and Voth, 2006).”
The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe (2013, background): “Voigtländer and Voth (2006) develop a model in which greater industrialization probabilities are the direct consequence of higher starting incomes.”
The potato's contribution to population and urbanization: evidence from a historical experiment. (2011, unknown): “For studies in the growth literature that have focused on the link between population increase and factors such as per capita incomes, see Galor and Weil (2000), Jones (2003), and Voigtländer and Voth (2006).”
Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, background): “18 See also Voigtlander and Voth (2006).”
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “This is supposed to have ensured that in England economic surpluses resulted in capital accumulation,enabling productivity-enhancing innovation and fuelling faster economic growth than in France or China (Voigtländer and Voth, 2006, 2010).”