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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akcomak, Semih - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation by educating Dutch citizens without inducing animosity from the … of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087419
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the common life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbkink, Dinand; Weel, Bas ter - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691727
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the brethren of the common life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 126 (2016) 593, pp. 821-860
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616891
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? The legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; ter … - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation by educating Dutch citizens without inducing animosity from the … rates of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291384
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, I. Semih; Webbink, Dinand; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation by educating Dutch citizens without inducing animosity from the … rates of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791523
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470491
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317061
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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792180
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667675
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Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany
Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009
This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531411