Karine van der Beek

Research

Current Research

  • Land Titling, Credit Expansion, and Bankruptcies: Evidence from the English Enclosures

    with Tomer Ifergane, Walker Ray, and Lior Farbman

    Using English enclosures from 1750–1830 as a natural experiment, we study how the privatization of common waste created newly mortgageable land, expanding credit while raising bankruptcies in industrial regions. The paper isolates a collateral channel through which property reforms can deepen credit markets and amplify default risk.

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  • The Mobility Effects of Land Reform: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century English Enclosures

    Examines how the redistribution of property rights through enclosure reshaped labour mobility and migration patterns across rural and industrializing England.

  • Reclassifying Skill: Millwrights, Labour, and Visual Culture in Early Industrial Britain

    Reconstructs the changing classification of skilled mechanical labour during the Industrial Revolution, drawing on occupational records and contemporary visual sources.

  • Nature as a Therapeutic Space in Times of Crisis

    Investigates the historical and contemporary role of natural environments as spaces of recovery and resilience during periods of social and economic disruption.

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