The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools / Sun Go, Peter H. Lindert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Go, Sun.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Lindert, Peter H.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13335.

NBER working paper series no. w13335

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the northern states had higher real incomes, cheaper teachers, and greater local tax support. The second was the greater autonomy of local governments. The third was the greater diffusion of voting power among the citizenry in much of the North, especially in rural communities. The distribution of local political voice appears to be a robust predictor of tax support and enrollments, both within and between regions.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2007.