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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 Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gupta, Sumedha - 2011

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...

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Wealth, inequality, and sex: The changes in female and male wealth and their consequences for the governance of the Russian Empire from 1700s to 1850s

Korchmina, Elena - 2023

Could we measure the contribution of women to the economy in the pre-industrial world? Yes, it is possible, particularly in the context of Russia. By analyzing archival sources, we can not only measure their contribution to the economy but also observe how the Russian Empire evolved into a more...

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The Cost of Decentralization: Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schueler, Ruth Maria - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber’s Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber’s suggestion that...

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Weber revisited: The protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered...

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National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective

Malinowski, Nikolaj; van Zanden, Jan Luiten - 2015

This paper presents estimates of the level of per capita GDP and of the distribution of income of preindustrial Poland … income in Poland was distributed more equally than in contemporary Holland. However, the extraction rate in the Voivodeship … agricultural sector. Moreover, on the basis of trends in real wages and urbanisation levels, we project Polish GDP forwards and …

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You Reap What You Know: Darwin beats Malthus: Medicalization, Evolutionary Anthropology and the Demographic Transition

Mühlhoff, Katharina - 2016

For the better part of human history, life was most fragile and death most imminent during infancy and early childhood. The death of a child may be hardly bearable from a humanitarian perspective. Yet, certain currents in economic theory attach a silver lining to high mortality by claiming that...

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Two Worlds of Female Labour: Gender Wage Inequality in Western Europe, 1300-1800

de Pleijt, Alexandra M.; van Zanden, Jan Luiten - 2018

It is generally acknowledged that the degree to which women participate in labour markets and how they are remunerated are important determinants of female autonomy that may also affect their demographic behaviour. Such links have been discussed in the literature about the "European Marriage...

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High Wages or Wages For Energy? An Alternative View of The British Case (1645-1700)

González, José L. Martínez - 2019

Energy was one of the keys to the remarkable increase in English GDP between 1650 and 1700. Increased per head physical …

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