plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

Prussia's period of rapid industrialization. Contrary to the predominant view that the franchise system produced a …

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the … Industrial Revolution. -- human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …

schools and higher school enrolment already before the industrialization. This evidence supports the human capital theory of … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education …. -- education ; Protestantism ; pre-industrialization …

Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe … important role in enabling Prussia to catch up with Britain during the nineteenth century. -- education ; industrialization …