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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018
innovation during the second industrial revolution. Religious tolerance is measured through population's religious diversity …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 …
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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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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
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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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Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316306
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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
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583719
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia
Edwards, Jeremy - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087285
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
We present new data documenting medieval Europe's “Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073085
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025
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iPEHD - The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2021
This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315875