Long-Run Growth: Unified Growth Theory and Economic History
29th-30th January 2013
University of Warwick
A collaboration between CAGE and the CEPR: Centre for Economic Policy Research
Organised by Sascha Becker, Omer Moav, Steve Broadberry and Kevin O'Rourke
Programme
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Session 1: Demographics and Growth
Chair: Nicholas Crafts
| 9.00 | Matteo Cervellati (Bologna |
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development |
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.15 | Francesco Cinnirella (Ifo Munich) |
Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in England, 1540-1870 |
| 11.15 | Gregory Clark (UCDavis) | Is one of the Fundamentals of Unified Growth Theory Missing? The Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in England, 1600-2012 Co-Authors: Neil Cummins |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
Session 2: Skill and the Industrial Revolution
Chair: Sascha Becker
| 13.30 | Morgan Kelly (UC Dublin) |
Precocious Albion: Human Capability in the English Industrial Revolution |
| 14.30 | Karine Van Der Beek (Ben-Guiron) |
Mechanization and Skill Choice on the Eve of the British Industrial Revolution, 1710-1772 |
| 15.30 | Coffee |
Session 3: Culture, Religion and Growth
Chair: Mark Harrison
| 15.45 | Carl-Johan Dalgaard (Copenhagen) |
Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England Co-Authors: Thomas B Anderson, Jeanet Bentzen and Paul Sharp |
| 16.45 | Sascha Becker (Warwick\CAGE) |
Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties Co-Author: Ludger Woessmann |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Session 4: Divergence and Comparative Development
Chair: Kris Mitchener
| 9.00 | Stephen Broadberry (LSE\CAGE) |
Accounting for the Great Divergence |
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.15 | Joachim Voth (UPF) |
Debt into Growth: Why the Country that Borrowed Most Industrialized First Co-Author: Jaume Venura |
| 11.15 | Oded Galor (Brown) | The Out of Africa hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development Co-Author: Ashraf Quamrul |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
Session 5: Growth in the Long Run
Chair: Bishnupriya Gupta
| 13.30 | Bob Allen (Oxford) |
An Economic Explanation of the Industrial Revolution |
| 14.30 | Jan Luiten Van Zanden (Utrecht) |
The story of two transitions: Unified Growth Theory and the European growth experience, 1300-1870 Co-Author: Sandra de Pleijt |
| 15.30 | Coffee |
Session 6: Institutions and Reversal of Fortune
Chair: Jordi Vidal-Robert
| 15.45 |
Anastasia Litina |
Unfavourable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune |
| 16.45 | Omer Moav (Warwick) |
Transparency, Appropriability and Institutions Co-Authors: Joram Mayshar and Zvika Neeman |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
