Boberg-Fazlic Nina, Jensen Peter Sandholt, Lampe Markus, Sharp Paul, Skovsgaard Christian Volmar
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
J Econ Growth (Boston). 2023 Apr 3:1-45. doi: 10.1007/s10887-023-09226-8.
We explore the role of elites for development and the spread of industrialized dairying in Denmark in the 1880s. We demonstrate that the location of early proto-modern dairies, introduced by landowning elites from northern Germany in the eighteenth century, explains the location of industrialized dairying in 1890: an increase of one standard deviation in elite influence increases industrialized dairying by 56 percent of the mean exposure in one specification. We interpret this as evidence for a spread of ideas from the elites to the peasantry, which we capture through measures of specialization in dairying and demand for education and identify a causal relationship using an instrument based on distance to the influential first mover. Finally, we demonstrate that areas with cooperatives enjoyed greater wealth by the twentieth century, and that they are today associated with other Danish cultural attributes: a belief in democracy and individualism.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10887-023-09226-8.
我们探讨了精英阶层在19世纪80年代丹麦乳业发展和工业化传播中的作用。我们证明，18世纪由德国北部的土地精英引入的早期准现代奶牛场的位置，解释了1890年工业化奶牛场的位置：在一种规范中，精英影响力增加一个标准差，工业化奶牛场的规模就会比平均水平增加56%。我们将此解释为思想从精英阶层传播到农民阶层的证据，我们通过奶牛养殖专业化程度、教育需求等指标来衡量这一点，并使用基于与有影响力的先行者的距离的工具变量确定因果关系。最后，我们证明，到20世纪，有合作社的地区更加富裕，并且如今它们与丹麦的其他文化特征相关联：对民主和个人主义的信仰。
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