Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315325 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Economic Growth [ISSN:] 1573-7020 [Volume:] 29 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 543-583
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
To analyze the impact of labor scarcity on technology adoption and innovation, this study uses the differential spread of cholera across France in 1832, 1849 and 1854, before the transmission mode of this disease was understood. The results suggest that a larger share of cholera deaths in the population, which can be causally linked to summer temperature levels, had a positive and significant short-run effect on technology adoption and innovation in agriculture but a negative and significant short-run impact on technology adoption in industry. These results can be explained by the positive impact of labor scarcity on human capital formation.
Subjects: 
Epidemics
Labor scarcity
Technology adoption
Technology-skill complementarity
JEL: 
I15
N13
O33
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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