Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England
This paper studies how the expansion of schooling contributed to England’s Industrial Revolution by increasing upper-tail human capital and entry into skill-intensive apprenticeships.
02 Apr 2026
Did a feedback mechanism between propositional and prescriptive knowledge create modern growth?
This paper quantitatively tests Joel Mokyr’s feedback loop hypothesis using historical text data.
19 Dec 2025
Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution
This paper studies teacher-directed scientific change during the Scientific Revolution. It shows that teachers at seventeenth century Oxford and Cambridge shaped students’ direction of research.
03 Mar 2025