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Autor/inn/en | Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger |
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Titel | Catch me if you can. Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution. |
Quelle | München: CESifo (2009), 55 S.
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Reihe | CESifo working paper. 2816. Economics of Education |
Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie; Graue Literatur |
Schlagwörter | Allgemeinbildung; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsinvestition; Industrialisierung; Investition; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Arbeitspapier; Preußen |
Abstract | 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. |
Erfasst von | ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel |
Update | 2010/2 |