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Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 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/10010269478
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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gupta, Sumedha - 2011
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274590
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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012
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/10010287649
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762085
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703315
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008574589
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The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Gupta, Sumedha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804583
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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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/10011079234
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The short- and long-run determinants of less-educated immigration into US states
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012
differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286878
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279271