Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education
By Francesco Cinnirella, E. Hornung. Social Science Research Network, 2016
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We study the relationship between large landownership concentration and the expansion of mass education in nineteenth-century Prussia. Cross-sectional estimates show a negative association between landownership concentration and enrollment rates. Fixed-effects panel estimates indicate that regions with an initially stronger landownership concentration exhibit increasing enrollment rates. This relationship is not driven by differences in the supply of schooling. We argue that the implementation of agricultural reforms including the stepwise abolition of serfdom is an important driver of the change in enrollment. The results are consistent with the interpretation that emancipation from labor coercion increased the private demand for education.
Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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- A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, background): “For example, Cinnirella and Hornung (2011) describe the interesting example of East German (today Polish) regions in which the large land owners opposed increased tax-based spending on higher school investments (for the micro-founded theoretical model see GMV, pp. 146 and 155).”
- The role of human capital and innovation in economic development: evidence from post-Malthusian Prussia (2017, unknown): “Yet we know that, for instance, the process of peasants’ emancipation which started in Prussia in 1807 has been very heterogeneous, which means that land-tenure and labor market relations might still have been different across counties in the late nineteenth century (Cinnirella and Hornung, 2016).”