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 …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …-quality trade-off with new county-level evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic transition. We find a … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …–quality trade-off with new county-level evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic transition. We find a … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …-quality trade-off with new county-level evidence for Prussia in 1816, several decades before the demographic transition. We find a … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …

This paper proposes a new perspective for studying decentralization by considering it as the unbundling of public goods … provision. We define centralization as the bundled provision of public goods from different tiers (national, sub-national or … local) by one single provider held accountable by the voters via elections. We define decentralization as the unbundled …