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Office Address:
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Department of Economics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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+972-8-647-2279
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+972-8-647-2941
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kvdbeek@bgu.ac.il
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General Information
| Research | Lectures and
Presentations | CV | Other Academic Activities
Education
Ph.D., Department of Economics, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007
M.A., Department of Economics, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
B.A., Department of Economics, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997
Teaching
Fall 2009: Institutional Economics for Graduates
Spring 2010: Topics in Economic HIstory
Economic
history, long-run economic growth and institutional economics, with particular
focus on
industrialization, technological change and the
evolution of human capital in Pre-Modern Europe.
Published Papers and Working Papers
"England's
eighteenth century demand for high-quality workmanship: Evidence from
apprenticeship, 1710-1770", SSRN Working Paper Series No. 2197054
(forthcoming in John Nye, Avner Greif, and Lynne Kiesling eds., Institutions,
Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and
Development, a festschrift volume in the honor of Prof. Joel Mokyr,
Princeton University Press. 2013).
"The
Effect of Political Fragmentation on Investments: A Case Study of Watermill
Construction in Medieval Ponthieu, France". Explorations in Economic History 47: 369-380. 2010.
"Political
fragmentation and investment decisions: the milling industry in feudal france (1150-1250)". Economic History Review 63(3): 664-687. August, 2010.
Human Capital and Growth during the
British Industrial Revolution
“Mechanization and Skill Choice on
the Eve of the British Industrial Revolution: 1710-1772”
“The Micro-Mechanisms of
Technology-Skill Complementarity: Evidence From the Early Years of the British
Industrial Revolution (1710-1772)” (With Naomi Feldman)
"Technological change and wage inequality within
skilled: the case of the British Industrial Revolution" (With Naomi Feldman)
"Intergenerational
mobility in the first half of the eighteenth century"
(With Moshe Justman)
"Returns to Skills in the First
Decades of the Industrial Revolution: A comparison with the ICT Revolution”
"Discipline premium during the
Industrial Revolution” (with Carmit Segal)
Political Institutions and Growth
"Landownership Structure and
Agricultural Productivity in Domesday England"
"Growth and the Rise of
National States: France 1000-1850"
2010
The Economic History Association
2010 Annual Meeting, Evanston, Il.
The Israeli Economic Association
Meeting (session chair), Jerusalem.
The 2010 Cliometrics
Conference, La Crosse.
European Social Science History
Conference, Ghent.
2009
The Oxford FRESH Meeting.
Economic History Seminar, University
of Copenhagen.
The European Historical Economics
Conference, Geneva.
2007
The European Historical Economics
Conference, Lund.
2006
Economic History Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Economic History Seminar, European
University Institute, Florence.
First Summer School of the CEPR RTN:
‘Unifying the European Experience’, EUI, Florence.
Economic History Seminar, Utrecht
University.
2005
Economic History Seminar, Oxford
University.
Economic History Seminar, University
of Western Ontario.
“Medieval Global Economies”,
University of Western Ontario.
The Economic History Association
Meeting, Poster session, Toronto.
The European Historical Economics
Conference, Istanbul.
The Economic History Society Annual
Conference, Leicester.
Coordinator of the Program in Economic History
and Growth (PEHG), Dept of Economics,
Ben-Gurion University
Research Affiliate, Minerva Center, Dept of Economics, The Hebrew University
CEPR RTN UEE Workshop organization, "From Stagnation to Growth: Unifying Growth
Theory", Florence, June 16-18, 2007.