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Education and industrialization in Prussia: A reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe problems, notably the omission of relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291556
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526171
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307941
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Education and industrialization in Prussia : a reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe problems, notably the omission of relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691683
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Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013
markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic … activity, examining the foundation of Germanyś first universities after 1386 following the Papal Schism. We find that the trend … specifications that address concerns about the endogeneity of university location. Universities provided training in newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199411
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Land inequality, eduction, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536183
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Quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century
Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McAtackney, Laura; … - 2015
Geary and Stark find that Irelandś Post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence was due to TFP growth rather than mass emigration. We devise new long-run measurements of human capital accumulation in Ireland in order to facilitate an assessment of sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405106
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia
Edwards, Jeremy - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe problems, notably the omission of relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087285
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
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 … specifications that address concerns about the endogeneity of university location. Universities provided training in newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073085
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Islam and Human Capital in Historical Spain
Cinnirella, Francesco - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836716