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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of human capital in historical perspective. Furthermore we provide new evidence on the relationship between landownership inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in...

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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...

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Islam and Human Capital in Historical Spain

Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020

This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...

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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011

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Can Autocracy Promote Literacy? Evidence from a Cultural Alignment Success Story

Palma, Nuno; Reis, Jaime - 2018

Do countries with less democratic forms of government necessarily have lower literacy rates as a consequence? Using a random sample of 4,600+ individuals from military archives in Portugal, we show that 20-year old males were twice as likely to end up literate under an authoritarian regime than...

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Lordships, state capacity and beyond: literacy rates in mid-nineteenth-century Valencia

Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; … - 2020

In this article we explore the relationship between institutions and educational performance from a historical perspective. Relying on municipal-level information for the Spanish region of Valencia, our study explores the economic effects of the delegation of power during the ancien regime from...

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The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from 19th Century France

Franck, Raphaël - 2023

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines which were supervised by the Ministry of Public Works,...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012

markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic … activity, examining the foundation of Germany’s first universities after 1386 following the Papal Schism. We find that the … close to universities or cities belonging to territories that included universities. Universities provided training in newly …

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Modern secondary education and economic performance: the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria

Semrad, Alexandra - 2014

Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth-century...

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A replication of "Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution" (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011)

Edwards, Jeremy - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-3, pp. 1-33

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...

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