Bandiera, O;
Mohnen, M;
Rasul, I;
Viarengo, M;
(2019)
Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration.
The Economic Journal
, 129
(617)
pp. 62-109.
10.1111/ecoj.12624.
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Abstract
Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that states adopted compulsory schooling laws as a nation-building tool to instil civic values to the culturally diverse migrants during the ‘Age of Mass Migration’ between 1850 and 1914. We show the adoption of compulsory schooling laws occurred significantly earlier in states that hosted European migrants with lower exposure to civic values in their home countries. Using cross-county data, we show that these migrants had significantly lower demand for American schooling pre-compulsion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12624 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12624 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055689 |
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