covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in … as education, religion, fertility, and many others for Prussian economic development in the 19th century. The service of …

World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the … leaders, especially in real wages and living standards. Some, like Ireland, achieved convergence without industrialization …

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth century Prussia …. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … of transmission was the larger provision of education for girls in commercial centers. …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849, and 1867--to estimate the relationship between women’s education and … negative residual effect of women’s education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …