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| Title: | | Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution  |
| Authors: | | Becker, Sascha O. Hornung, Erik Woessmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4556 |
| Abstract: | | 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 emerging new technologies. Our unique school-enrollment and factory-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre-industrial development, we use pre-industrial education as an instrument to identify variation in later education that is exogenous to industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution. |
| Subjects: | | Human capital industrialization Prussian economic history |
| JEL: | | N13 N33 I20 O14 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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