Based on previous very successful research projects done by Ludger Woessmann in cooperation with the Ifo research professors Sascha O. Becker and Eric A. Hanushek, an international empirical research centre examining the effects of education on longterm economic development is supposed to be established within the department Human Capital and Innovation during the project period. The research focuses on county-level data form 19th Century Prussia before and after the Industrial Revolution and on modern international student assessment data including the set up of new data bases. It is planned to launch an international network of Economists of Education.
empirical analyses
Historical Prussian data, international student assessment data, various other data bases.
Wößmann, Ludger (joint with Sascha O. Becker), "Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History", Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (2), 2009, 531–596 ( Working paper version available as: CESifo Working Paper 1987 (PDF))
Wößmann, Ludger (joint with Sascha O. Becker), "Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110 (4), 2008, 777–805 ( Working paper version available as: CESifo Working Paper 2414 (PDF) )
Wößmann, Ludger (joint with Eric A. Hanushek), "The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development", Journal of Economic Literature 46 (3), 2008, 607-668 ( Working paper version available as: CESifo Working Paper 1911 (PDF) )
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