State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
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Keywords
Education; Growth; Human Capital; Institutions; Persistence; State Capacity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2016-04-23 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2016-04-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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