A Hard Day’s Night: Provision of Public Evening Schools in the United States, 1870–1910

Linda English ()
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Linda English: Baylor University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History, 2019, pp 137-165 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the United States, enrollment in public evening schools increased throughout the nineteenth century. The expansion of evening schools was far from uniform across space, however, with some cities embracing this form of education much more readily than others. This paper brings together information from the Census, Annual Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Education, states’ school superintendent’s reports and factory inspection reports, and various secondary sources to examine the diffusion of public evening schools in the U.S. Although proponents of evening schools often cited the welfare of working children as the primary rationale for providing this type of education alternative, the econometric evidence suggests that the political economy of evening school provision hinged more on school boards’ responsiveness to differences in immigration levels and school overcrowding than exogenous differences in the proportion of children working.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11313-1_9

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