The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?

Tomas Cvrcek () and Miroslav Zajicek

Cliometrica, 2019, vol. 13, issue 3, No 2, 367-403

Abstract: Abstract The rise of education features prominently in the debate on the sources of modern economic growth. Existing accounts stress the importance of popular demand for its public provision. We argue that such an explanation for the spread of schooling is a poor fit for many nations’ schooling histories, such as Imperial Austria. We show that in the Austrian case, schooling and economic development had limited impact on each other; that the popular demand for schooling was weak and that the push for school expansion came mainly from the top of the political hierarchy.

Keywords: Public schooling; Education; Economic development; Austria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 I28 N13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11698-018-0180-6

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