Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy (2016, background): “The printing press was relatively more important for providing access to science and and similar “top end” knowledge; see Dittmar (2011) for an analysis of the overall impact of printing on early economic growth.”
Coal and the European Industrial Revolution (2014, methodology): “Dittmar (2011) analyses city sizes, as we do, to explore the macroeconomic impact of the printing press.”
The long Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub Saharan Africa (2016, background): “As shown by Dittmar (2011), printed media was costly to import because they were heavy and fragile commodity sensitive to damp (Dittmar, 2011).”
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, neutral): “…and Woessman(2012) show that the share of cognitively high- a positive impact on pre-industrial economic development (Ba en and van Zanden, 2008; Dittmar, 2011).15 Our main explanatory variable,Encyclopédiesubscriber density, offers two advantages over printing locations or local book…”
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, methodology): “This identi cation strategy is similar to the one employed by Becker and Woessmann (2009) with distance to Wittenberg and Dittmar (2011) with distance to Mainz.”