VoxEU.org: Erik Hornung http://www.VoxEU.org Recent Erik Hornung articles on VoxEU.org en Education helped Prussia catch up in the Industrial Revolution http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/5006 Sascha O Becker, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann, 9 May 2010

Did education play a role in economic development during the Industrial Revolution? This column discusses new evidence from Prussia showing that formal education was critical to technology adoption in the first and second phase of the Industrial Revolution during the 19th century.

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