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| Title: | | Landownership concentration and the expansion of education  |
| Authors: | | Cinnirella, Francesco Hornung, Erik |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Economics of Education 3603 |
| Abstract: | | This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on schooling. This effect diminishes substantially in the second half of the century. Causality of this relationship is confirmed by introducing soil-texture to identify exogenous farm size variation. Panel estimates further rule out unobserved heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants' demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand thereof. |
| Subjects: | | land concentration institutions serfdom education Prussian economic history |
| JEL: | | O43 Q15 I25 N33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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