Faustine Perrin
Senior lecturer
Cliometrics of Primary Education in the Long Nineteenth Century France
Author
Summary, in English
The objective of this article is to study the links between the financing of primary education, schooling and economic growth in France in the nineteenth century. To do so, we use information on the financing allocated by the State, the departments, the municipalities, and households over the period 1820–1913. Our analysis is in two stages. First, we analyse the evolution of these different types of financing over time, relying on the outliers’ methodology to detect the existence of possible breaks in the series. Next, we study the causal relationships between the different types of financing, the number of children enrolled in primary education and the gross domestic product. Over the period studied, our results confirm that mass schooling is primarily driven by political will, before being explained by the increase in wealth available in the economy.
Department/s
- Historical labour markets
- Growth, technological change, and inequality
- Department of Economic History
- Centre for Economic Demography
Publishing year
2021
Language
English
Pages
39-69
Publication/Series
Nordic Journal of Educational History
Volume
8
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
University of UMEA
Topic
- Economic History
Keywords
- Primary education
- Financing
- Nineteenth century
- France
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2001-9076