Although European economic history provides essentially no support for the view that education of the general … population has a positive causal effect on economic growth, a recent paper by Becker, Hornung and Woessmann (Education and catch …-up in the Industrial Revolution, 2011) claims that such education had a significant impact on Prussian industrialisation …

important role in enabling Prussia to catch up with Britain during the nineteenth century. -- education ; industrialization …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 …