Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Kopsidis, Michael; Wolf, Nikolaus

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“…The Stolypin reform went along with measures to improve access to credit, input and outlet markets through cooperatives, and to enhance the provision of agronomic aid (Macey 1998;Gerasimov 2009). Considering that institutional change played a minor role even in Prussia (Kopsidis and Wolf 2012), whose famous agrarian reforms served as a model for late-Imperial Russian policy makers, we suggest that the state-driven attempt to establish a private farming system had less effect on yield growth and agricultural development in Imperial Russia than 'liberal ownership' theory would predict.…”

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Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

Kopsidis¹,

Bruisch²,

Bromley³

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This contribution deals with agricultural dynamics in late-Imperial Russia. Based upon a comprehensive micro-level data set on annual yields between 1883 and 1913, we provide insight into regional differences of agricultural growth and the development prospects of Russian agriculture before WWI. Making use of the fact that contemporary Russian statistics distinguished between mostly communally governed open fields and privately owned land, we are able to test the implications of different land tenure systems for agricultural yield growth. In a broader sense, we seek to challenge the common narrative of Russia as an exception to the pan-European picture of economic development during the era of industrialization.

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Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

Kopsidis¹,

Bruisch²,

Bromley³

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…18 The variable for land rent is based on the Grundsteuerreinertrag defined as the income from agrarian use of land less the costs of farming (Kopsidis and Wolf, 2012). Crop yields refer to yields of wheat and rye.…”

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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Cinnirella

Hornung

2017

Demographic Change and Long-Run Development

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of human capital in historical perspective. Furthermore we provide new evidence on the relationship between landownership inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and empirical literature on the role of gender specific human capital in the demographic transition. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Codes: O430, Q150, I250, J120, N330.

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“…The argument of a (urban)-demand-driven agricultural development, which stressed the role of the cities' growth in agricultural progress, has been used by several other scholars to explain why Northwestern Europe was the world's most productive region in agriculture until 1800 (see e.g. de Vries, 1974;Boserup, 1981;Wrigley, 1987Wrigley, , 1988Grantham 1989Grantham , 1999Kussmaul, 1990;Hoffman, 1996;van Zanden, 1999;Allen, 1998Allen, , 2000Allen, and 2008bWeisdorf, 2006;Campbell, 2010) (Kopsidis and Wolf, 2012).…”

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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Neuss

2015

SSRN Journal

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The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated overview of the literature devoted to identifying the causes of the British industrial revolution. Why did the industrial revolution, a fascinating and multifaceted event which brought about modern economic growth, occur in eighteenth-century Britain? This question has animated a lot of discussions among scholars and is still nowadays heatedly debated in the literature. This debate is reflected in the large spectrum of theories which aim at explaining the true origins of the British industrialization. The paper first sheds light on a rising debate concerning the evolution of British incomes per capita before the British industrial revolution and the "Great Divergence". The paper then investigates the proposed causes of the British industrialization, aggregating them into seven broad categories, i.e. (1) geography and natural resources, (2) demography, (3) agricultural progress, (4) demand-side factors, (5) trade and empire, (6) institutional and political factors, (7) science, technology, and human capital.

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Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

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