Arbeitspapier
Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously emerging new technologies. Our unique school-enrollment and factory-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution.
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Englisch
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2816
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Wirtschaft
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Education and Research Institutions: General
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
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human capital
industrialization
Prussian economic history
Bildungspolitik
Allgemeinbildung
Bildungsinvestition
Industrialisierung
Entwicklungskonvergenz
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Preußen
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Sascha O.
Hornung, Erik
Woessmann, Ludger
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2009
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20.09.2024, 8:24 AM CEST
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Hornung, Erik
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2009