Human capital, technology diffusion and economic growth: Evidence from prussian census data
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München
Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung
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CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 T H E LONG-TERM IMPORTANCE O F HISTORICAL EVENTS 2
1.2 HUMAN CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY IN MODELS O F ECONOMIC GROWTH 3
1.3 THE CASE O F PRUSSIA 4
1.4 CENSUS DATA AND MICROECONOMETRIC METHODS 6
1.5 OUTLINE O F THE THESIS 7
2 LANDOWNERSHIP CONCENTRATION AND THE EXPANSION OF EDUCATION 11
2.1 INTRODUCTION 11
2.2 RELATED LITERATURE 13
2.3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 15
2.3.1 LANDOWNERSHIP AND LAND REFORM 15
2.3.2 THE POLITICAL POWER O F THE LANDOWNERS 16
2.3.3 EDUCATION REFORM 17
2.3.4 SCHOOL FINANCING 18
2.4 THE DATA 21
2.4.1 PRUSSIAN CENSUS DATA 21
2.4.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 26
2.5 OLS RESULTS 3 0
2.6 ESTABLISHING CAUSALITY 32
2.6.1 THE CAUSAL EFFECT O F LANDOWNERSHIP CONCENTRATION ON EDUCATION . .
. 32
2.6.2 INSTRUMENTAL-VARIABLE RESULTS 36
2.7 ROBUSTNESS CHECKS 37
2.7.1 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY 37
2.7.2 URBAN VS RURAL 38
2.7.3 EAST VS WEST 4 0
2.7.4 THE GINI COEFFICIENT 4 0
2.7.5 PANEL ESTIMATION 42
2.8 CONCLUSION 4 4
APPENDIX 2A SOIL DATA AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS 4 5
APPENDIX 2B DATA SOURCES 45
3 EDUCATION AND CATCH-UP IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 51
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3.1 INTRODUCTION 51
3.2 A LEADER-FOLLOWER INTERPRETATION O F INDUSTRIALIZATION 54
3.2.1 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND CATCH-UP TO THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL
FRON TIER 54
3.2.2 INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS AND THE EMERGENCE O F INDUSTRIALIZATION IN
PRUSSIA 57
3.3 THE EMPIRICAL MODEL 58
3.3.1 BASIC SETUP 58
3.3.2 OBTAINING EXOGENOUS EDUCATIONAL VARIATION FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL EDU
CATION LEVELS 59
3.3.3 ADDITIONAL SPECIFICATIONS 62
3.3.4 PANEL DATA MODELS WITH COUNTY FIXED EFFECTS 63
3.4 THE DATA 64
3.4.1 CONSTRUCTING A PANEL DATABASE 64
3.4.2 MAIN VARIABLES AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 64
3.5 RESULTS 70
3.5.1 THE FIRST PHASE O F INDUSTRIALIZATION 7 0
3.5.2 IS PRE-EXISTENT EDUCATION EXOGENOUS? 72
3.5.3 THE SECOND PHASE O F INDUSTRIALIZATION 76
3.5.4 DISTANCE TO WITTENBERG AS AN ALTERNATIVE INSTRUMENT 78
3.5.5 ADDITIONAL ROBUSTNESS TESTS 78
3.5.6 PANEL ESTIMATION 86
3.6 RELATION TO EXISTING EVIDENCE ON BRITISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 88
3.7 CONCLUSION 91
APPENDIX 3A THE RELEVANCE O F EDUCATION FOR INDUSTRIALIZATION 94
APPENDIX 3B EXAMPLES O F THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADOPTION PROCESS IN PRUSSIA
96
APPENDIX 3C DATA SOURCES 9 8
IMMIGRATION AND THE DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY: THE HUGUENOT DIASPORA 103
4.1 INTRODUCTION 103
4.2 ECONOMIC EFFECTS O F MIGRATION 105
4.3 HISTORY O F HUGUENOT MIGRATION TO PRUSSIA 107
4.3.1 IMMIGRATION AFTER THE EDICT O F POTSDAM 107
4.3.2 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT O F FRENCH IMMIGRANTS 109
4.3.3 KNOWLEDGE LEAD AND TRANSFER I L L
4.3.4 THE SETTLEMENT PATTERN O F HUGUENOTS 113
4.4 THE DATA 114
4.5 THE EMPIRICAL MODEL 119
4.5.1 THE PRODUCTIVITY MODEL 119
4.5.2 EXOGENOUS VARIATION FROM POPULATION LOSSES DURING THE THIRTY
YEARS WAR 119
4.6 RESULTS 121
4.6.1 BASIC RESULTS 121
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4.6.2 INSTRUMENTAL-VARIABLE RESULTS 124
4.6.3 TESTING FOR INSTRUMENT VALIDITY AND FURTHER DISCUSSION 126
4.7 CONCLUSION 130
APPENDIX 4 A EXCERPT FROM THE EDICT O F POTSDAM 132
APPENDIX 4B PRODUCTIVITY DATA AND IMPUTATION 132
APPENDIX 4 C POPULATION LOSS DATA AND CONSTRUCTION O F THE INSTRUMENT
133
5 RAILROADS AND REGIONAL GROWTH 137
5.1 INTRODUCTION 137
5.2 RELATED LITERATURE 139
5.3 PATTERNS O F RAILROAD EXPANSION AND URBANIZATION 140
5.3.1 THE EXPANSION O F THE RAILROAD NETWORK 140
5.3.2 URBAN POPULATION GROWTH 141
5.4 HOW RAILROADS AFFECT CITY GROWTH 142
5.5 THE DATA 143
5.6 THE CAUSAL EFFECT O F RAILROAD ADOPTION ON CITY GROWTH 147
5.6.1 CROSS-SECTIONAL ESTIMATES (OLS) 148
5.6.2 INSTRUMENTAL-VARIABLE ESTIMATES 151
5.6.3 ROBUSTNESS TESTS IN DIFFERENT SUBSAMPLES 158
5.6.4 PANEL DATA ESTIMATES 160
5.7 CONCLUSION 163
APPENDIX 5A DEFINITION AND SOURCES O F CONTROL VARIABLES 165
APPENDIX 5B DEFINITION AND SOURCES O F MATCHING VARIABLES 166
REFERENCES 167
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