Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247137 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 207
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
We provide a brief overview of the educational history of Denmark and document archival and printed sources covering the development of primary, secondary, and tertiary education. In particular, we focus on student grade lists, which are available for individuals at all levels of education from the early nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century. We suggest that these can be used to construct more detailed measures of human capital than those usually employed, making it possible to deconstruct aggregate education into e.g. knowledge of science or humanities, as well as to measure the extent to which this was actually learned, as captured by the grades achieved. Given the role usually attributed to human capital for development, and perhaps particularly with regards the Nordic countries, such data has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of how Denmark became the rich and successful country it is today.
Subjects: 
Denmark
grade lists
human capital
JEL: 
I21
N33
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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