Tracks to Modernity: Railroads, Growth, and Social Movements in Denmark

Tom G\"orges, Magnus {\O}rberg Rove, Paul Sharp and Christian Vedel

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Abstract: We examine how railroads shaped Denmark's nineteenth-century economic transformation and the diffusion of Grundtvigian institutions. Using a panel of 1589 parishes and a difference-in-differences design for staggered adoption, we find that railroad connection increased local population by 7 percent, partly through internal in-migration, and structural change. Railroad access also brought cultural and institutional change by increasing the local densities of folk high schools and community houses, though these results are less robust than the economic findings.

Date: 2025-02, Revised 2026-09
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