Ifo Project, Department Human Capital and Innovation: Education, innovation and technological progress in economic history

Education, innovation and technological progress in economic history

Contact:


Client:		internal (dissertation project)
Project period:		2008 - June 2012

Task:

This dissertation project is arranged to analyze the connections between human capital / education, technological progress / innovation and economic growth. It is an empirical work which analyzes historical Prussian census data throughout the 18th and 19th century at the mikro-level.

Methodology:

Empiric, econometric

Data sources:

Censuses of the Prussian Statistical Bureau

Department conducting the study