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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mit dem Abebben der jüngsten Flüchtlingswelle verschiebt sich der Fokus der Diskussion von Fragen der unmittelbaren Versorgung hin zur Integration der Flüchtlinge. Damit sind Fragen des Bildungsstandes, der sprachlichen und beruflichen Qualifikationen und möglicher bildungspolitischer...

Lehrkräfte sind ein zentraler Bestimmungsfaktor der Qualität eines Schulsystems. Sie sind Hauptakteure und Experten der Schulbildung. Gleichzeitig haben sie natürlich auch eigene Interessen, wenn es um die Gestaltung des Bildungssystems geht. Denken Lehrkräfte anders über Fragen der...