Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247103 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 173
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This study provides new evidence on the advance of literacy in Spain during the period 1860-1930. A novel dataset, built with historical information (over 8,000 municipalities) from the Spanish population censuses, enables us to describe this process in detail from the end of the Ancien Régime to the Second Republic. The study thus presents stylized facts at a very low level of geographic aggregation, thereby permitting a closer examination of the main patterns. Overall, spatial differences in literacy were sizeable during the whole nineteenth century. Furthermore, these disparities were only significantly reduced between 1900 and 1930 when the growing demand for these basic skills were met by a stronger government intervention.
Subjects: 
Literacy
Regional Disparities
Nineteenth Century
Spain
JEL: 
I20
N33
N93
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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