TY - JOUR
T1 - The wealth→life history→innovation account of the Industrial Revolution is largely inconsistent with empirical time series data
AU - Varnum, Michael E.W.
AU - Grossmann, Igor
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - Baumard proposes a model to explain the dramatic rise in innovation that occurred during the Industrial Revolution, whereby rising living standards led to slower life history strategies, which, in turn, fostered innovation. We test his model explicitly using time series data, finding limited support for these proposed linkages. Instead, we find evidence that rising living standards appear to have a time-lagged bidirectional relationship with increasing innovation.
AB - Baumard proposes a model to explain the dramatic rise in innovation that occurred during the Industrial Revolution, whereby rising living standards led to slower life history strategies, which, in turn, fostered innovation. We test his model explicitly using time series data, finding limited support for these proposed linkages. Instead, we find evidence that rising living standards appear to have a time-lagged bidirectional relationship with increasing innovation.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X19000086
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X19000086
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 31744565
AN - SCOPUS:85075282662
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 42
SP - e212
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
ER -