Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

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作者
Becker, Sascha O. [1 ]
Hornung, Erik
Woessmann, Ludger [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Warwick, Dept Econ, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
[2] Ifo Inst Econ Res, CESifo, D-81679 Munich, Germany
[3] Univ Munich, D-81679 Munich, Germany
关键词
ECONOMIC-GROWTH; INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY; DISTANCE; FRONTIER; ENGLAND; SYSTEM; TRADE;
D O I
10.1257/mac.3.3.92
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Research increasingly stresses the role of human capital in modern economic development. Existing historical evidence-mostly from British textile industries-however, rejects that formal education was important for the Industrial Revolution. Our new evidence from technological follower Prussia uses a unique school enrollment and factory employment database linking 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Using pre-industrial education as instrument for later education and controlling extensively for pre-industrial development, we find that basic education is significantly associated with nontextile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution. Panel data models with county fixed effects confirm the results. (JEL I20, J24, N13, N33, N63)
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页码:92 / 126
页数:35
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