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Cinnirella, Francesco and Hornung, Erik (2013) Landownership concentration and the expansion of education. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2013 (Number 175).

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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 serfdom, has a negative effect
on schooling. This effect diminishes substantially towards the end 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 present several robustness checks
which shed some light on possible mechanisms.

Item Type: Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Alternative Title:
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DD Germany
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Prussia (Germany) -- History -- 1815-1870 , Land tenure -- Prussia -- History, Education -- Prussia -- History
Series Name: CAGE Online Working Paper Series
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Place of Publication: Coventry, UK
Official Date: October 2013
Volume: Volume 2013
Number: Number 175
Number of Pages: 63
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Funder: Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung

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