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Industrialization and the return to labor : evidence from Prussia

Becker, Ann-Kristin; Hornung, Erik - 2025 - This version: November 1, 2025

Industrialization boosts aggregate incomes, but its distributional effects remain debated. We study the impact of coal-driven industrialization on unskilled labor incomes using novel panel data on wages from 667 Prussian localities (1800-1879), extended with county-level data through 1914....

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Industrialization and the return to labor : evidence from Prussia

Becker, Ann-Kristin; Hornung, Erik - 2025 - This version: November 1, 2025

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Industrialization and the return to labor : evidence from Prussia

Becker, Ann-Kristin; Hornung, Erik - 2025

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Industrialization and the return to labor : evidence from Prussia

Becker, Ann-Kristin; Hornung, Erik - 2025

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A comment on "Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land"

Abajian, Alexander C.; Xu, Cong; Yu, Shuo - 2025

Bartels, Jäger and Obergruber (2024) examine how division rules for the inheritance of agricultural land affected distributional outcomes in 19th century and contemporary Germany. The authors use a regression discontinuity design to show that equal-division counties-those in which inheritance...

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On the origins of national identity : German nation-building after Napoleon

Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2024

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On the origins of national identity : german nation-building after Napoleon

Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2021

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East Prussia 2.0 : persistent regions, rising nations

Polugodina, Maria; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2024

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East Prussia 2.0 : persistent regions, rising nations

Polugodina, Maria; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2020

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Long-term effects of equal sharing : evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2024

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Long-term effects of equal sharing : evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2024

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Long-term effects of equal sharing : evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2024

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Long-term effects of equal sharing : evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2022

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte - 2020

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte - 2020

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Industrialization, wealth concentration, and elite turnover

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Stieglitz, Timo - 2026

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International migration from and to Prussia: 1862-1871

Bauer, Thomas K.; Schulze, Kathrin - 2023

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Sovereign debt issuance and the transformation of the monetary architecture in Prussia and the German Empire, 1740-1914

Murau, Steffen - 2023

This paper traces the transformation of the monetary architecture and concomitant sovereign debt issuance practices in Prussia and the German Empire from 1740 to 1914 in order to reflect on contemporary ideas regarding the appropriate relation between states' treasuries, central banks, and the...

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International migration from and to Prussia : 1862-1871

Bauer, Thomas K.; Schulze, Kathrin - 2023

Migration has always been an omnipresent topic in Germany. However, unlike today, in the 19th century the German territory was a country of emigration, not immigration. Using county-level data for the period from 1861 to 1871, this paper examines the determinants of emigration from and...

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Ministerialblatt für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

Nordrhein-Westfalen - Düsseldorf : Bagel - 1.1948-78. Jahrgang, Nummer 29 (24. Juni 2025)

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Ministerialblatt für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

Nordrhein-Westfalen - Düsseldorf : Innenministerium; Saarbrücken : juris GmbH; … - Nachgewiesen 2.1949 -

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Justizblatt Rheinland-Pfalz : Amtsblatt des Ministeriums der Justiz

Rheinland-Pfalz; Rheinland-Pfalz / Ministerium der Justiz; … - Diez : Justizvollzugs- und Sicherungsverwahrungsanstalt Diez; … - 1.1947-79. Jahrgang, Heft 2 (24. Februar 2025)

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Justizblatt Rheinland-Pfalz : Amtsblatt des Ministeriums der Justiz

Rheinland-Pfalz; Rheinland-Pfalz / Ministerium der Justiz; … - Mainz : Ministerium der Justiz und für …; … - 55. Jahrgang, Nr. 1 (8. Januar 2001) [?]-

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Structural change, elite capitalism, and the emergence of labour emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2025

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The Cost of State-Building : Evidence from Germany

Heldring, Leander - 2025

I examine the potential of pro-development state (capacity) building projects to be coopted for repression. I leverage the natural experiment created by the differential build-up of capacity between formerly Prussian and formerly non-Prussian parts of unified Germany, and the radical policy...

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Financial markets and land redistribution in 19th century East Prussia

Wandschneider, Kirsten - 2022

How did the emerging market for land in the 19 th century influence land distribution in East Prussia? And how did land markets respond to the emergence of financial institutions that relied on land as collateral but also affected the ease and speed of land transfer? Focusing on the example of a...

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Structural change, elite capitalism, and the emergence of labor emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2022

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Impact of religion on regional economic development : evidence from 19th century Prussia

Chung, Seung-hun; Partridge, Mark D. - 2024

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Trade shocks, labour markets and elections in the first globalisation

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021

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Prussia To Russia Business Strategy And Foreign Policy – Economic War In Europe

ul Haq, Bina - 2021

• Russia is a pill Europe cannot swallow nor can spill; exit costs from Russian trade and foreign relations will have long lasting and adverse effects on businesses and trade globally.• The factors discussed in this article indicate the economic war in Europe. Greece bail out or not, Russia...

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iPEHD - The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2021

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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iPEHD : The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O. - 2012

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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016

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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2021

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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016

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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

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

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...

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The Trade-Off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from Before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of Protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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Can institutional transplants work? : a reassessment of the evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2021

The institutional reforms France imposed in the parts of Germany it occupied in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are claimed to provide an example of successful externally-imposed institutional reforms. The most detailed study is that of Lecce and Ogliari (2019), who argue that...

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Can Institutional Transplants Work? A Reassessment of the Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2021

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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the...

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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2008

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Trade shocks, labour markets and elections in the first globalisation

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalisation (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...

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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...

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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...

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Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of Its Universe of Localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia disaggregated: the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020 - This version: April 2020

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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

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Prussia Disaggregated : The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

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Prussia Disaggregated : The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

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Weber revisited : the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

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Weber revisited: the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

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Weber Revisited : The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

Kersting, Felix - 2020

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Forschungsperspektiven der Geschichte des regionalen Genossenschaftswesens am Beispiel der Provinz Posen

Bormann, Patrick - 2020

Despite the recent increase in research on the history of the system of German cooperative banks, the middle tier of the three-level cooperative system has remained a blind spot. The lack of sources has been alleviated by the discovery of the long forgotten archive collection I. HA, Rep. 177 of...

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National identity, economic integration, and the rise of Prussia

Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

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Writings on economic and social history

Grossmann, Henryk - 2023

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Cameralism in practice and Prussian industrialization policies

Zhao, Xuan - 2023

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Effects of German industrialization on Turkish-German military-strategic relations (1815-1929)

Büyükdağ, Atakan - 2023

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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

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Full steam ahead: Insider knowledge, stock trading and the nationalization of the railways in Prussia around 1879

Buchner, Michael; Jopp, Tobias A. - 2019

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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Suesse, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

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Public goods provision in the early modern economy : comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

2019

"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a...

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Public goods provision in the early modern economy : comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

2019

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The political economy of the prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2020

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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

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The political economy of the prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

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Bismarck to no effect : fertility decline and the introduction of social insurance in Prussia

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2019

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then state programs that provide insurance against these events should...

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