Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation
利用法国各地蒸汽机采用的差异，研究发现早期工业化并非如传统观点认为的那样降低技能要求，反而促进了基础识字率和教育水平的提升，但未增加中等和高等教育入学率。
Abstract This research explores the effect of early industrialisation on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study suggests that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialisation as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human capital formation, generating wide-ranging gains in literacy rates and educational attainment. However, this increase in human capital formation was limited to basic literacy and numeracy and did not entail an increase in the share of pupils in middle and high schools in the population.