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Jeremiah Dittmar.

Jeremiah Dittmar

Associate

Expertise: Technology diffusion, economic growth, political economy, economic history.

Telephone:
0203 486 2881
Email:
j.e.dittmar@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 2.22
Links:
CEP Labour
CEP Urban

Biography

Dr Jeremiah Dittmar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research centres on technology diffusion, economic growth, political economy, and economic history.

Publications

CEP discussion papers
The research university, invention and industry: evidence from German history

We examine the role of universities in knowledge production and industrial change using historical evidence. Political shocks led to a profound pro-science shift in German universities around 1800. To study the consequen... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

30 June 2022

CEP discussion papers
Pandemic shock and economic divergence: political economy before and after the black death

We document how the Black Death activated politics and led to economic divergence within Europe. Before the pandemic, economic development was similar in Eastern and Western German cities despite greater political fragme... Read more...

Luis Bosshart and Jeremiah Dittmar

22 October 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
In brief... The lasting impact of epidemics

What can we learn about the potential effects of Covid-19 by looking at plagues of the past? According to Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralf Meisenzahl, history suggests that experiences of severe suffering can lead populations t... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

02 November 2020

Journal article
Public goods institutions, human capital, and growth: evidence from German history

What are the origins and consequences of the state as a provider of public goods? We study public goods provision established through new laws in German cities during the 1500s. Cities that adopted the laws subsequently ... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

01 March 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Europe's transformation after Gutenberg: the impact of new media and competition

Jeremiah Dittmar explores the effects of the printing press and the new forms of competition that accompanied its introduction.... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar

01 March 2019

CEP discussion papers
New media and competition: printing and Europe's transformation after Gutenberg

We study the role of book content in economic, religious, and institutional development after the introduction of printing, and the role of competition in determining the amount and content of local printing. We focus on... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold

31 January 2019

Journal article
Religious competition and reallocation: the political economy of secularization in the protestant reformation

Using novel microdata, we document an important, unintended consequence ofthe Protestant Reformation: a reallocation ofresources from religious to secular purposes. To understand this process, we propose a conceptual fra... Read more...

Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman

01 November 2018

CEP discussion papers
Reallocation and secularization: the economic consequences of the protestant reformation

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was both a shock to the market for religion and a first-order economic shock. We study its impact on the allocation of resources between the religious and secular sectors in... Read more...

Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman

17 May 2017

CEP discussion papers
State capacity and public goods: institutional change, human capital and growth in early modern Germany

What are the origins and consequences of the state as a provider of public goods? We study legal reforms that established mass public education and increased state capacity in German cities during the 1500s. These fundam... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

17 March 2016

CEP discussion papers
New media, competition and growth: European cities After Gutenberg

This research studies how variations in competition and in media content characterized the use and impact of Gutenberg's printing press technology during the European Renaissance. The research constructs annual firm-leve... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar

01 August 2015

CEP discussion papers
Media, markets and institutional change: evidence from the protestant reformation

This research studies the role of competition in the diffusion of radical ideas and institutional change during the Protestant Reformation. We construct a new measure of religious content in the media using data on all k... Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold

01 August 2015

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