Landownership concentration and the expansion of education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik
• 署名单位: Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Bayreuth; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Max Planck Society
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.03.001
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 135-152
• 关键词: Land concentration; education; serfdom; Peasants' emancipation; Prussian economic history

摘要

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. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.