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KARINE VAN DER BEEK Short
Bio | Curriculum Vitae | Research | Teaching |
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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
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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
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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) |
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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
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"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
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Real
life economics - workshop (142.1.0180) |
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Introductory
Econometrics (142.1.1081) |
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Topics in Economic History
(142.1.1091) |
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Institutional Economics for
Graduates (142.2.18) |
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Explaining the British
Industrial Revolution 142.2.93) |