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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583719
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Wars and Markets: How Bond Values Reflect World War II
Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - CESifo - 1999
Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766215
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia: A Reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2013
Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877667
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877851
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Black and White Body Mass Index Values in Developing 19th Century Nebraska
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013
Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667415
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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries
Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2006
The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094193
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Geography, Non-Homotheticity, and Industrialization: A Quantitative Analysis
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - CESifo - 2012
We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570050
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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877712
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877875
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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - CESifo - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877887