Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Francesco Cinnirella and Erik Hornung

No 3603, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on schooling. This effect diminishes substantially in the second half of the century. Causality of this relationship is confirmed by introducing soil-texture to identify exogenous farm size variation. Panel estimates further rule out unobserved heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand thereof.

Keywords: land concentration; institutions; serfdom; education; Prussian economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N33 O43 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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