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 … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When …

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 …

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 …

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 … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When …

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 … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

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 …

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …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 …