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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018

innovation during the second industrial revolution. Religious tolerance is measured through population's religious diversity …We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial …

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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013

causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2013

causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel …

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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

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...

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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017

This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...

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Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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Education and Industrialization in Prussia: A Reassessment

Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 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...

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iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - CESifo - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2013

We present new data documenting medieval Europe’s “Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of 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...

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Reformation and Reallocation : Religious and Secular Economic Activity in Early Modern Germany

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...

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