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Friday 26 March 2021 16.00 - 17.15
F-12 EDU12b The Rise of Education across World Regions: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence II
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Networks: Economic History , Education and Childhood Chair: Sarada Balagopalan
Organizers: Gabriele Cappelli, Johannes Westberg Discussant: Michelangelo Vasta
Gabriele Cappelli, Gloria Quiroga Valle : Did extending Suffrage lead to more Schooling? A Quasi-experiment based on Italy and Spain, 1860-1921
This paper explores the relationship between enfranchisement and the rise of mass schooling in Italy and Spain in the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. Our first contribution is to provide new, fully harmonized estimates of primary-education indices for Italy’s and Spain’s ... (Show more)
This paper explores the relationship between enfranchisement and the rise of mass schooling in Italy and Spain in the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. Our first contribution is to provide new, fully harmonized estimates of primary-education indices for Italy’s and Spain’s provinces (roughly today’s NUTS3 level) in c. 1860, 1870, 1877, 1887, 1901, 1910 and 1921. Our second contribution is to provide new evidence on whether the expansion of local electoral franchise – defined as the share of adult (25+) males allowed to vote in local elections – fostered mass schooling, which is an important topic within the economic history of education and human capital. Our results show that positive shocks increasing franchise did not matter in the medium term; instead, local and state funding, as well as alternative mechanisms to expand education – e.g. privately given lack of public resources – are found to be the main factors explaining differences between Italy and Spain and across their regions. (Show less)

María José Fuentes-Vásquez, Irina Espana Eljaiek : Coffee tastes Bitter: Education, Child Labor, and Coffee Economy in Colombia during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
This paper quantitatively shows that coffee export-led development in Colombia during the late 19th and mid-20th century reduced educational development of coffee growing areas. Between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, Colombia was one of the leading coffee producers. The literature argues ... (Show more)
This paper quantitatively shows that coffee export-led development in Colombia during the late 19th and mid-20th century reduced educational development of coffee growing areas. Between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, Colombia was one of the leading coffee producers. The literature argues that this agrarian export production provided resources which favored more subnational provision of education for coffee areas. However, in contrast to the mainstream literature, this article demonstrates that international booms in coffee prices reduced educational performance in the most important Colombian coffee areas, i.e., Caldas, Antioquia, and Cundinamarca. By using new information at the municipal level, the main article conclusion is that when coffee prices reached records between the 1920s and 1930s children stop attending school to work in coffee production reducing educational variables such as enrollment in primary schools and literacy rates. The finding, therefore, contributes to an extensive literature on the effects of export-led development in educational development. (Show less)

David Mitch : Continuity and Change in the Rise of Female Literacy during both the White and the Islamic Revolutions in Iran, 1960 -2000
In the 1960s, a central thrust of Shah Pahlavi’s White Revolution was the formation of a literacy corps aimed aimed making literacy universal in Iran. The literacy core included a female branch aimed at increasing female literacy rates from the markedly low level of 17 percent in 1966. And ... (Show more)
In the 1960s, a central thrust of Shah Pahlavi’s White Revolution was the formation of a literacy corps aimed aimed making literacy universal in Iran. The literacy core included a female branch aimed at increasing female literacy rates from the markedly low level of 17 percent in 1966. And by 1976. Female literacy rates (for females over the age of 6 years old) had doubled to 35 percent. Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the female literacy rate continued to rise dramatically reaching a level of 80 percent in 2006. The improvement was particularly market in rural Iran, with literacy rates for women aged 15 to 29, increasing from 4.9 percent in 1976 to 84.1 percent in 2006. This paper will consider the factors contributing to the sustained increase female literacy during this period despite the fundamental change in the political regime. (Show less)



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