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Description
While there is much theoretical and empirical literature examining the role of education in long-term growth, less understood is how different types of education — and the specialisation of skills implicit in higher education — shape development.
The twin purposes of this project are to:
1) examine the role of higher education in Scandinavia’s industrialisation and long-term economic development from the nineteenth century onwards
2) develop and apply new techniques for the measurement of human capital (education) and the analysis of its effects.
I employ two sets of novel Scandinavian source material: grade lists, which track student performance in high school and university; and graduate biographies, which provide details of students’ background, education and post-study careers.
My dissertation will comprise a collection of four articles which build and apply a new skills-based measure of human capital to examine different aspects of the role of higher education in Scandinavian industrialisation.
The twin purposes of this project are to:
1) examine the role of higher education in Scandinavia’s industrialisation and long-term economic development from the nineteenth century onwards
2) develop and apply new techniques for the measurement of human capital (education) and the analysis of its effects.
I employ two sets of novel Scandinavian source material: grade lists, which track student performance in high school and university; and graduate biographies, which provide details of students’ background, education and post-study careers.
My dissertation will comprise a collection of four articles which build and apply a new skills-based measure of human capital to examine different aspects of the role of higher education in Scandinavian industrialisation.
Layman's description
How did changes in the supply of and demand for different types of higher education contribute to Scandinavia’s economic development from the nineteenth century onwards?
Short title | Origins of the knowledge economy |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 2020/08/31 → 2024/08/30 |
UKÄ subject classification
- Economic History
- Economics
Free keywords
- economic history
- economics
- human capital
- industrialisation
- Scandinavia
- Denmark
- Norway
- Sweden
- education
- higher education
- tertiary education
Projects
- 1 Active
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The life course of graduates: Assessing the economic effects of education in Scandinavia, 1880–1920
2020/09/01 → 2024/08/31
Project: Research
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History of capitalism seminar series
Nick Ford (Invited speaker)
2022 Nov 28Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop/ seminar/ course
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Australalasian Cliometrics Workshop
Nick Ford (Participant)
2022 Nov 6Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop/ seminar/ course
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8th Annual meeting of The Danish Society for Economic andSocial History & 3rd meeting of the Scandinavian Society forEconomic and Social History
Nick Ford (Presenter)
2022 Oct 26Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference