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1. Can Role Models Help Encourage Young People to Apply to (Selective) Universities : Evidence From a Large Scale English Field Experiment
abstractUnder-participation in selective universities lowers social mobility in England, the United States, and elsewhere. English universities have standardized tuition costs, and strongly heterogeneous graduate earnings. Attending a selective university is therefore strongly incentivized, yet under-participation is extensive. The British Government sent 11,104 “nudge” letters to school students whose prior attainment made them competitive for entry into selective universities, urging them to consider that option. We evaluate this RCT and find it effective at raising the number of students who apply to, and accept offers from, selective universities. We find the cost to be low relative to outcomes
Sanders, Michael; Chande, Raj; Kozman, Eliza; Leunig, Timothy;2019
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2. The centennial issue of the discussion papers in economic and social history
Arena, Lise; Dimsdale, Nicholas H.; Esteves, Rui Pedro; Landers, John; Leunig, Timothy;2013
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3. Spinning Welfare : The Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production
abstractEconomists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while more recently economists have found relatively large gains from electricity, computers and cell phones. In each case the implicit or explicit assumption is that researchers were measuring the value of a new good to society. In this paper we use the same techniques to find the value to society of making existing goods cheaper. Henry Ford did not invent the car, and the inventors of mechanized cotton spinning in the industrial revolution invented no new product. But both made existing products dramatically cheaper, bringing them into the reach of many more consumers. That in turn has potentially large welfare effects. We find that the consumer surplus of Henry Ford's production line was around 2% by 1923, 15 years after Ford began to implement the moving assembly line, while the mechanization of cotton spinning was worth around 6% by 1820, 34 years after its initial invention. Both are large: of the same order of magnitude as consumer expenditure on these items, and as large or larger than the value of the internet to consumers. On the social savings measure traditionally used by economic historians, these process innovations were worth 15% and 18% respectively, making them more important than railroads. Our results remind us that process innovations can be at least as important for welfare and productivity as the invention of new products
Leunig, Timothy; Voth, Hans-Joachim;2014
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4. Gibrat's law and the British industrial revolution
Klein, Alexander; Leunig, Timothy;2013
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5. Gibrat's law and the British industrial revolution
abstractThis paper examines Gibrat's law in England and Wales between 1801 and 1911 using a unique data set covering the entire settlement size distribution. We find that Gibrat's law broadly holds even in the face of population doubling every fifty years, an industrial and transport trevolution, and the absence of zoning laws to constrain growth. The result is strongest for the later period, and in counties most affected by the industrial revolution. The exception were villages in areas bypassed by the industrial revolution. We argue that agglomeration externalities balanced urban disamenities such as commuting costs and poor living conditions to ensure steady growth of many places, rather than exceptional growth of few.
Klein, Alexander; Leunig, Timothy;2013
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6. Gibrat's law and the British industrial revolution
Klein, Alexander; Leunig, Timothy;2013
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7. Surprisingly gentle confinement : British treatment of Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war during the napoleonic wars
Leunig, Timothy; Lottum, Jelle van; Poulsen, Bo;2018
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8. Gender, productivity and the nature of work and pay : evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry
Stanfors, Maria; Leunig, Timothy; Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias;2011
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9. Spinning welfare : the gains from process innovation in cotton and car production
Leunig, Timothy; Voth, Hans-Joachim;2011
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10. Spinning welfare : the gains from process innovation in cotton and car production
Leunig, Timothy; Voth, Hans-Joachim;2011
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