Growth of human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire in 1897-1913: the role of local self-government bodies (zemstva) financing

Vladimir Popov, Roman Konchakov and Dmitry Didenko

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Abstract: The previous research with incomplete data revealed that zemstva expenditure on education per capita were higher in regions with low level of education, but these spending did not make much of a difference – human capital in these regions remained relatively low (Popov, Konchakov, Didenko, 2024). The results reported in this paper provide additional and more rigorous proof that zemstva activities and the increase in their spending for education in 1897-1913 contributed to the spread of primary education and to the decline in the inequality of the distribution of human capital not only between the regions

Keywords: educational attainment; school enrollment; inequality; land distribution; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I24 J24 N93 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-21
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