Dr. Karine van der Beek

Office Address:

Department of Economics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Tel:

+972-8-647-2279

Fax:

+972-8-647-2941

E-Mail:

kvdbeek@bgu.ac.il

 

General Information | Research | Lectures and Presentations | CV | Other Academic Activities

 

General Information

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



Research Interests

       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.

 

Work in Progress

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"

 

Lectures and Presentations

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.

 

Other Academic Activities

*   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.