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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011
heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669360
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Religious practice and student performance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695576
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Religious practice and student performance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794514
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Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 3, pp. 92-126
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009247267
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Education and industrialization in Prussia : a reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691683
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Human capital, technology diffusion and economic growth : evidence from Prussian census data
Hornung, Erik - 2012
This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616563
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697065
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021 - This version: October 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668868
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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - In: Journal of development economics 121 (2016), pp. 135-152
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637550
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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2011
heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415640