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dc.contributor.authorBecker, Saschaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorHornung, Eriken_UK
dc.contributor.authorWoessmann, Ludgeren_UK
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-21T00:25:11Z-
dc.date.available2017-06-21T00:25:11Z-
dc.date.issued2009-09-01en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/1613-
dc.description.abstractExisting 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 nontextile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.relationBecker S, Hornung E & Woessmann L (2009) Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-19.en_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-19en_UK
dc.subjectHuman capitalen_UK
dc.subjectindustrializationen_UK
dc.subjectPrussian economic historyen_UK
dc.subjectEconomicsen_UK
dc.subjectIndustrial productivity Historyen_UK
dc.titleCatch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolutionen_UK
dc.typeWorking Paperen_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusUnpublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedUnrefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailsascha.becker@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date01/09/2009en_UK
dc.subject.jelN13: Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913en_UK
dc.subject.jelN33: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913en_UK
dc.subject.jelI20: Education and Research Institutions: Generalen_UK
dc.subject.jelO14: Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationEconomicsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationIfo Institute for Economic Research, Germanyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Munichen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid840810en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2009-09-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2009-09-17en_UK
rioxxterms.typeWorking paperen_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorBecker, Sascha|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHornung, Erik|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWoessmann, Ludger|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2009-09-17en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved|2009-09-17|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameSEDP-2009-19-Becker-Hornung-Woessmann.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
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