KARINE VAN DER BEEK Short Bio | Curriculum Vitae | Research | Teaching
	Mailing address: Department of Economics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O.B 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel My office is in Room 439 Building 72 Telephone: 08-647-2279 e-mail: kvdbeek@bgu.ac.il

Bio

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 technological change, human capital accumulation, and, political institutions. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was awarded research grants from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), and from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Karine’s current research examines the effect of enclosures in eighteenth century England on financial markets and bankruptcies. In her other studies she uncovers the skills that were mostly affected during Britain’s Industrial Revolution.

Publications and Working Papers

2021. “The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization” Conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal. (with Joel Mokyr and Assaf Sarid).

Now on VOX!

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)

2015. "Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London", Economic History Review 68(4): 1177–1202. (with Moshe Justman). (pdf draft)

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

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.

2010. "Political fragmentation and investment decisions: the milling industry in feudal France (1150-1250)". Economic History Review 63(3): 664-687.

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 Dror Avraham)

“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)