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Education systems and human capital accumulation
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - In: An economic history of the first German unification : …, (pp. 255-273). 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529984
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Catch me iIf 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 development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888965
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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 development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916475
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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154487
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Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the …-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316306
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Forced migration and human capital : evidence from post-WWII population transfers
Becker, Sascha O.; Grosfeld, Irena; Grosjean, Pauline; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888407
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Education promoted secularization : conference paper
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491163
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Education and religious participation : city-level evidence from Germany's secularization period 1890-1930
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of economic growth 22 (2017) 3, pp. 273-311
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937925
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256208
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257347