Landed elites and education provision in England: evidence from school boards, 1871-99

Marc Goñi ()
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Marc Goñi: University of Bergen

Journal of Economic Growth, 2023, vol. 28, issue 1, No 4, 125-171

Abstract: Abstract I study the relationship between land concentration and the expansion of state education in 19C England. Using a broad range of education measures for 40 counties and 1,387 School Boards, I show a negative association between land concentration and local taxation, school expenditure, and human capital. I estimate reduced-form effects of 19C land concentration, geographic factor endowments, and the land redistribution after the Norman conquest of 1066. The negative effects on state-education supply are stronger where rural labour can easily migrate, where landowners had political power, is not offset by voluntary schooling, and not driven by a demand channel. This suggests that landowners opposed taxation in order to reduce state education provision.

Keywords: State education; Land concentration; Persistence; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 N33 O43 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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