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Islam and human capital in historical Spain
Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 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/10012200325
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Islam and human capital in historical Spain
Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220284
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229697
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229974
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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 … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691683
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003203350
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189636