Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration
By O. Bandiera, Myra Mohnen, Imran Rasul, M. Viarengo. Economic Journal, 2019
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Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that states adopted compulsory schooling laws as a nation-building tool to instil civic values to the culturally diverse migrants during the ‘Age of Mass Migration’ between 1850 and 1914. We show the adoption of compulsory schooling laws occurred significantly earlier in states that hosted European migrants with lower exposure to civic values in their home countries. Using cross-county data, we show that these migrants had significantly lower demand for American schooling pre-compulsion.
Subfields: Demography, Education
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- Building Nations through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football (2020, unknown): “However, such policies often include the provision of public services: from mass schooling to military conscription, from infrastructure building to resettlement programs (Tilly 1975, Weber 1976, Finer 1975, Ramirez and Boli 1987, Bandiera et al. 2019, Conversi 2008, Bel 2011, Bazzi et al. 2019). Th”
- Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, background): “, 2017), and on the adoption of state-level compulsory schooling laws (Bandiera et al., 2017).”