Office Address:	Department of Economics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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	E-Mail:	kvdbeek@bgu.ac.il

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.

      "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.