Bühler, Mathias; Vollmer, Leonhard; Wimmer, Johannes - In: Journal of Economic Growth 29 (2023) 1, pp. 79-119
Does access to education facilitate the emergence of a human capital elite from which social activists, and thus, social change can emerge? Assembling a city-level panel of the political, intellectual, and economic elite throughout German history, we find that the opening of schools providing...
