Norms in action? On the channels through which Poland’s historical partitions may still contribute to divergent educational achievements in the country’s regions

Mikołaj Herbst

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to better understand the importance of a long-erased border between two empires that once partitioned Poland and its ongoing effect on regional educational achievement. Previous research has indicated that inherited norms towards education may explain the observed gap in the achievement of students in the former Austrian and Russian partitions of Poland. Findings suggest that although a gap in favour of the former Austrian partition does indeed exist in four school subjects, there is no convincing evidence of the causal effect of historically rooted norms on the achievements of today’s students. If such an effect exists, it is probably indirect and works through the accumulated educational attainments of adult generations and quality of instruction rather than by directly influencing the attitudes of today’s students.

Date: 2023
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