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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696
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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956802
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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021
Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316231
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination : A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021
Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316340
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029260
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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2010
Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572551
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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020793
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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2013
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075976
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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018
We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial … innovation during the second industrial revolution. Religious tolerance is measured through population's religious diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927577
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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693473