Landed Society, Farm Size, and Support for Public S chooling in Nineteenth Century England (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

Historical accounts of the determinants of funding for education have emphasized the role of redistributive motives. This has featured prominent ly i the literature based on the Engerman Sokoloff thesis on how resource endowments affect i ncome and wealth inequality which in turn affects support for public education. A number of s tudies both internationally and based on regional analysis within countries have found that rising inequality is associated with declining support for public education. However, leaders of p ublic education movements have generally emphasized the public good or external benefits of popular education rather than its redistributive dimensions. And studies for the midn neteenth century United States have found public externality as well as redistributive motive s present as explanatory factors behind regional variation in support for public education (Beadie 2 010; Stoddard 2009, 2011).

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