KARINE VAN DER BEEK Short
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Karine van der Beek is a senior lecturer at
the economics department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a research
affiliate at the Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She specializes in European
economic history and long-run economic growth with a specific interest in the
relationship between human capital, financial markets, political institutions and technological change. Karine holds a PhD
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post-doc fellow at EUI
and at UPF as part of the CEPR Research Training Network, ‘Unifying the
European Experience’ in the years 2006-7. Her current research examines the
effect of enclosures in eighteenth century England on financial markets and
bankruptcies. In her other studies she applies econometric and ML tolls to
uncover the role played by various skills and occupations in Britain’s
Industrial Revolution. |
Publications and Working Papers
2022. “The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption,
Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization” The Economic Journal, 1–33
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab102. (With Joel Mokyr and Assaf
Sarid). |
2020. Expectations: Theory and Applications from
Historical Perspectives. Springer Studies in the
History of Economic Thought. (Arie Arnon, Warren Young & Karine van der
Beek Eds.). 2017. "Flexible
Supply of apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution" Journal of Economic History
77(1): (With Nadav Ben-Zeev and Joel Mokyr). (pdf_draft) |
2016. "Skill Choice and skill complementarity in
Eighteenth century England: 1710-1770”. Explorations
in Economic History 59(1): 94-113. (With Naomi Feldman). (pdf_draft) short
assay at the Israel Science
Foundation website (in Hebrew) |
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2015. "Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in
Eighteenth Century London", Economic History Review 68(4):
1177–1202. (With Moshe Justman).
(pdf draft) |
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2014. "England's eighteenth century demand for
high-quality workmanship: Evidence from apprenticeship, 1710-1770", in Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling
and John V.C. Nye (eds.), Institutions,
Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and
Development, a festschrift volume in the honor
of Prof. Joel Mokyr, Princeton University Press, pp. 268-274. Robert Margo's Review at EH.Net |
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2010. "The Effect of Political Fragmentation on
Investments: A Case Study of Watermill Construction in Medieval Ponthieu, France”. Explorations in Economic History 47: 369-380. |
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2010. "Political fragmentation and investment
decisions: the milling industry in feudal France (1150-1250)". Economic
History Review 63(3): 664-687. |
Other Publications
2023. "Economic Aspects of Urban Greenness Along a Dryland
Rainfall Gradient: a Time-Series Analysis". Urban
Forestry & Urban Greening Available online 24 March 2023, 127915. (with:
Roni Bluestein-Livnon, Tal Svoray, and, Michael Dorman. |
Work in Progress
"The Collateral Channel of Britain’s Industrial Revolution: The financial side of Land Enclosures” (with Lior Farbman) abstract (November20) "Shoemakers and engines: the secret
connection"
(with Assaf Sarid) “The
Spatial distribution of skills in eighteenth century England: new estimates
using evidence on apprenticeship”. "Was steam engine technology
skill-biased? The short-run effects of steam engine development on demand for
skills in eighteenth century England" |
Courses taught
Real
life economics - workshop (142.1.0180) |
Introductory
Econometrics (142.1.1081) |
Topics in Economic History
(142.1.1091) |
Institutional Economics for
Graduates (142.2.18) |
Explaining the British
Industrial Revolution 142.2.93) |