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 …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to …

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 …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …