plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

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 Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional …

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level …

analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …

the introduction of technical education in primary schools. At the same time, the Catholic Church was promoting a … mechanism: more religious areas saw a slower introduction of the technical curriculum and instead a push for religious education …. Religious education, in turn, was negatively associated with industrial development about 10 to15 years later, when school …

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …

explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education …. -- education ; Protestantism ; pre-industrialization … schools and higher school enrolment already before the industrialization. This evidence supports the human capital theory of …

obtain this result using county-level data from late nineteenth-century Prussia. This environment allows us to exploit both …

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 … iPEHD is to provide the data in a digitized and structured way. -- economic history ; Prussia ; 19th century ; database …

creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial …