Replication: Who Benefited from Industrialization? The Local Effects of Hydropower Technology Adoption in Norway

<div>Replication package for "Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower adoption in Norway" by Stefan Leknes and Jørgen Modalsli, forthcoming in Journal of Economic History. We refer to the paper, and its Online Appendix, for further detail on data sources and how results are obtained. Please see the "readme.txt" file details specific to the attached files. Program and data files are in Stata format.<br></div><div><br>Abstract of paper:<br><br>This
paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor
market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891–1920). The
sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a quasi-experimental
setting, as not all municipalities had suitable natural endowments and the
possible production sites were often located in remote areas. We find that
hydropower municipalities experienced faster structural transformation and
displayed higher occupational mobility. We interpret this as evidence that this
early twentieth-century technology was skill biased, as workers in the new
skilled jobs were recruited from a broad segment of the population.</div><div><br></div>