To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how the advancement in
information and communication technology affects the formal economic participation of …

This paper examines how high-tech venture performance varies with AI-adoption intensity.
We find that firm revenue increases only after sufficient investment in AI, and the benefits of …

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have generated a robust debate about
the future of work. An analogous debate occurred in the late nineteenth century when …

This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic
development, and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the …

We explore the possibility that a global productivity slowdown is responsible for the
widespread decline in the labor share of national income. In a neoclassical growth model …

We examine the effect of technical change on human capital formation during England's
Industrial Revolution. Using the number of steam engines installed by 1800 as a synthetic …

In this paper we examine the impact of natural resource wealth by focusing on historical coal-
mining across European regions. As an exogenous source of variation in coal extraction …

Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic
growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown …

Is industrialization conducive for economic development in the long-run? Exploiting
exogenous variation in the diffusion of steam engines across 19th century France, the …