This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When …

stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to …

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …