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 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
2020. “The Wheels of Change:
Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s
Industrialization” R&R at the Economic
Journal. (with Joel Mokyr and Assaf Sarid). |
van der Beek, Karine (Ed.). 2020. Expectations: Theory and Applications from
Historical Perspectives. Springer Studies in the
History of Economic Thought. (With Arie Arnon and Warren Young). 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. |
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) |
Introduction to
Econometrics (0-142-1-1081) |
Topics in Economic History
(0-142-1-1091) |
Institutional Economics for
Graduates (0-142-2-18) |
Explaining the British
Industrial Revolution (0-142-2-93) |