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The Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)

  • Date: Tuesday 13 December, 2016

  • Time: 12.30-2.00pm

  • Venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Room C6.002, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

The Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS), is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor Dan Bogart (UCLA):

Railways and structural change: Evidence from industrializing Britain

 

"The transition from agriculture to manufacturing and services is one of the key features of the British industrial revolution. This paper uses new data to examine the effects of railways on local employment growth and structural change. It includes numbers of males employed in different occupations across more than 9500 parishes in England and Wales at two dates 1817 and 1881, and new GIS shapefiles of transport infrastructure and endowments."

 

About the Speaker

Professor Dan Bogart is Associate Professor of Economics at the UC Irvine. His interests include Economic Development, Health Economics, Family Economics, and Labour Economics.