Replication data for: Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sascha O. Becker; Erik Hornung; Ludger Woessmann

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Project Citation:

Becker, Sascha O., Hornung, Erik, and Woessmann, Ludger. Replication data for: Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114227V1

Project Description

Summary: Research increasingly stresses the role of human capital in modern economic development. Existing historical evidence -- mostly from British textile industries -- however, rejects that formal education was important for the Industrial Revolution. Our new evidence from technological follower Prussia uses a unique school enrollment and factory employment database linking 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Using pre-industrial education as instrument for later education and controlling extensively for pre-industrial development, we find that basic education is significantly associated with nontextile industrialization in both phases of the Industrial Revolution. Panel data models with county fixed effects confirm the results. (JEL I20, J24, N13, N33, N63)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      N13 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
      N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
      N63 Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: Europe: Pre-1913

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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