Replication Data: Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth – Evidence from Industrialization in France
Creators:
Réka Juhász, Mara P. Squicciarini, and Nico Voigtländer
Publication Date:
2023-11-24
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This dataset, hosted on Harvard Dataverse, contains the replication data for the study "Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France" (Juhász, Squicciarini & Voigtländer, 2024, Journal of Political Economy). It includes historical firm-level and regional data from 19th-century France used to examine how the adoption of new technologies, particularly steam power during industrialisation, drove productivity growth, and what factors determined which firms and regions adopted new technologies faster.
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