作者：Stanford University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe characteristics such as the health, physical strength, and education of indentured servants. These characteristics, unobservable to us, were likely to influence servitude duration, which is observable to us. We employ a switching regression model to analyze 2,066 servitude contracts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Servants were positively selected to American mainland colonies in terms of their unobservable hu...
作者：Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Metropolitan State University
作者：University of Cambridge; Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
作者：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
作者：Colby College
摘要：In this article I provide a micro-level analysis of primary schooling in Victorian England. Using a new dataset of school-age males linked between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the determinants of childhood school attendance and the impact of attendance on adult labor market outcomes. I find that schooling had a positive effect on adult occupational class and that the associated wage gains were likely to have outweighed the cost of schooling. However, this effect was small r...
