Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Francesco Cinnirella and Erik Hornung

No 9730, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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 serfdom, has a negative effect on schooling. This effect diminishes substantially towards the end 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 present several robustness checks which shed some light on possible mechanisms.

Keywords: Education; Institutions; Land concentration; Peasants' emancipation; Prussian economic history; Serfdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N33 O43 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11
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