Bruno Caprettini
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Prof. Ph.D.
Last Name
Caprettini
First name
Bruno
Email
bruno.caprettini@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 7750
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Item type:Publication, New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War IIWe demonstrate an important complementarity between patriotism and public-good provision. After 1933, the New Deal led to an unprecedented expansion of the U.S. federal government’s role. Those who benefited from social spending were markedly more patriotic during World War II: they bought more war bonds, volunteered more, and, as soldiers, won more medals. This pattern was new—World War I volunteering did not show the same geography of patriotism. We match military service records with the 1940 census to show that this pattern holds at the individual level. Using geographical variation, we exploit two instruments to suggest that the effect is causal: droughts and congressional committee representation predict more New Deal agricultural support, as well as bond buying, volunteering, and medals.Type:journal articleJournal:The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsVolume:138Issue:1Scopus© Citations 24 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, New patriots: How Roosevelt’s New Deal made America great again(2023-02-14); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, You Only Weave Twice: Industrial Espionage and Growth in XIX Century France(2026)Can state-sponsored industrial espionage promote innovation and lead to self-sustained growth? We study the effect of 18th century French industrial espionage activity on French innovation and industrial actrivity in 1840-60. Between 1720 and 1810 the French Bureau of Commerce promoted an ambitious plan aimed at stealing from Britain the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution, bribing British entrepreneurs and inventors to leave England and bring their expertise to France. We assemble a novel database with a comprehensive list of French espionage activity between 1720-1810 and combine it with newly-digitized18th century industrial surveys and trade statistics, 1800s industrial censuses, and the full list of early French patents. Using a rich model with granular department × sector fixed effects, we find large, positive, and persistent effects of industrial espionage on trade, patents, and industrial activity. Placebo results with failed espionage attempts suggest that selection is unlikely to drive the results.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, You Only Weave Twice: Industrial Espionage and Growth in XIX Century France(2026-06-04)Can state-sponsored industrial espionage promote innovation and lead to self-sustained growth? We study the effect of 18th century French industrial espionage activity on French innovation and industrial actrivity in 1840-60. Between 1720 and 1810 the French Bureau of Commerce promoted an ambitious plan aimed at stealing from Britain the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution, bribing British entrepreneurs and inventors to leave England and bring their expertise to France. We assemble a novel database with a comprehensive list of French espionage activity between 1720-1810 and combine it with newly-digitized18th century industrial surveys and trade statistics, 1800s industrial censuses, and the full list of early French patents. Using a rich model with granular department × sector fixed effects, we find large, positive, and persistent effects of industrial espionage on trade, patents, and industrial activity. Placebo results with failed espionage attempts suggest that selection is unlikely to drive the results.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, You Only Weave Twice: Industrial Espionage and Growth in XIX Century France(2026-06-13)Can state-sponsored industrial espionage promote innovation and lead to self-sustained growth? We study the effect of 18th century French industrial espionage activity on French innovation and industrial actrivity in 1840-60. Between 1720 and 1810 the French Bureau of Commerce promoted an ambitious plan aimed at stealing from Britain the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution, bribing British entrepreneurs and inventors to leave England and bring their expertise to France. We assemble a novel database with a comprehensive list of French espionage activity between 1720-1810 and combine it with newly-digitized18th century industrial surveys and trade statistics, 1800s industrial censuses, and the full list of early French patents. Using a rich model with granular department × sector fixed effects, we find large, positive, and persistent effects of industrial espionage on trade, patents, and industrial activity. Placebo results with failed espionage attempts suggest that selection is unlikely to drive the results.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, You Only Weave Twice: Industrial Espionage and Economic Growth in XIX Century France(2023-09-01); Julian LangerType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution(2022-12-06); Trew, AlexWe collect new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships' ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument, we show that exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption, technology afterwards improved more rapidly.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution(2022-12-06); Trew, AlexWe collect new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships' ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument, we show that exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption, technology afterwards improved more rapidly.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution *(2022-12-06); Trew, AlexWe collect new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships' ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument, we show that exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption, technology afterwards improved more rapidly.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, You Only Weave Twice: Industrial Espionage and Growth in XIX Century France(2026-01-21)Can state-sponsored industrial espionage promote innovation and lead to self-sustained growth? We study the effect of 18th century French industrial espionage activity on French innovation and industrial actrivity in 1840-60. Between 1720 and 1810 the French Bureau of Commerce promoted an ambitious plan aimed at stealing from Britain the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution, bribing British entrepreneurs and inventors to leave England and bring their expertise to France. We assemble a novel database with a comprehensive list of French espionage activity between 1720-1810 and combine it with newly-digitized18th century industrial surveys and trade statistics, 1800s industrial censuses, and the full list of early French patents. Using a rich model with granular department × sector fixed effects, we find large, positive, and persistent effects of industrial espionage on trade, patents, and industrial activity. Placebo results with failed espionage attempts suggest that selection is unlikely to drive the results.Type:conference lecture
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