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 …

Industrialization and the rise of nationalism were the two major developments in Germany before the World War I. A … novel county-level dataset reveals that industrialization and nationalism measured by membership in the "Kriegervereine …, I find strong evidence for a causal impact of industrialization on nationalism. In order to detect possible mechanisms …

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level …

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 …

analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …