Catch me if you can. Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution.

Autor/inn/en	Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger
Titel	Catch me if you can. Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution.
Quelle	München: CESifo (2009), 55 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 2816. Economics of Education
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Allgemeinbildung; Allgemeinbildung; Bildungspolitik; Industrialisierung; Investition; Preußen; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsinvestition; 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