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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
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Om ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 21-37
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
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Om metoder i ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 67-91
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
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Om teorier i ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 39-66
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- Bengtsson, Erik, et al.
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Ekonomisk ojämlikhet
- 2020
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Blomqvist, Christopher, et al.
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Joint Handwritten Text Recognition and Word Classification for Tabular Information Extraction
- 2022
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Ingår i: 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). - 9781665490634 - 9781665490627 ; , s. 1564-1570
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we present a system for extracting tabular information from loosely structured handwritten documents. The system consists of three parts, (i) a u-net like CNN-based method for text detection and segmentation, (ii) a new attention-based method for simultaneous text recognition and classification of word-parts, and (iii) a method for matching the word parts into a tabular structure for each entry. A key contribution is the observation that the new attention-based recognition and classification module makes it possible for improved spatial analysis of the tabular information. The method is evaluated on a unique historical document: The Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571, consisting of 11,453 pages of hand-written tax records. The evaluation shows that the system provides a significant improvement to the state-of-the-art to the problem of tabular extraction from loosely structured historical documents.
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- Blomqvist, Christopher, et al.
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Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571
- 2023
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Ingår i: Explorations in Economic History. - : Elsevier BV. - 0014-4983. ; 87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We describe a deep learning method to read hand-written records from the 16th century. The method consists of a combination of a segmentation module and a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) module. The transformer-based HTR module exploits both language and image features in reading, classifying and extracting the position of each word on the page. The method is demonstrated on a unique historical document: The Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571. Results suggest that the segmentation module performs significantly better than the lay-out analysis implemented in state-of-the art programs, enabling us to trace many more text blocks correctly on each page. The HTR module has a low character error rate (CER), in addition to being able to classify words and help organize them into tabular formats. By demonstrating an automated process to transform loosely structured handwritten information from the 16th century into organized tables, our method should interest economic historians seeking to digitize and organize quantitative material from pre-industrial periods.
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- Ejermo, Olof, et al.
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Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studying migrants from Sweden to the United States, we provide new evidence on return migration during the Age of Mass Migration. Focusing on a sample of migrants and stayers observed in childhood, we document limited effects on income and occupational upgrading, but large effects on wealth. Male returnees held about twice as much wealth as stayers and about 40 percent more than staying brothers. These effects were likely driven by accumulated savings overseas, rather than inheritance or an income premium back home. For female returnees, wealth effects are of similar magnitude, but appear to be realized primarily through marriage.
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- Enflo, Kerstin, et al.
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Between Malthus and the industrial take-off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571–1850
- 2020
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0013-0117. ; 73:2, s. 431-454
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The causes and extent of regional inequality in the process of economic growth are at the core of historical economic research. So far, much attention has been devoted to studying the role of industrialization in driving regional divergence. However, empirical studies on relatively unequal countries such as Italy and Spain show that inequality was already high at the outset of modern industrialization. Using new estimates of Swedish regional GDP, this article looks for the first time at regional inequality in a pre-industrial European economy. Its findings show that inequality increased dramatically between 1571 and 1750 and stayed high until the mid-nineteenth century. This result refutes the classical view that the industrial take-off was the main driver of regional divergence. Decomposing the Theil index for GDP per worker, we find that the bulk of inequality from 1750 onwards was driven by structural differences across sectors rather than different regional productivity within sectors. We show that counties with higher agricultural productivity followed a classic Malthusian pattern when experiencing technological advancement, while those with higher industrial productivity did not. We suggest that institutional factors, such as the creation of the Swedish Empire, Stockholm's trading rights, and a protective industrial policy, amplified this exceptional pattern.
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