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The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900

In: Roots of Underdevelopment

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  • Matthew Curtis

    (University of Southern Denmark)

  • Mateo Uribe-Castro

    (Universidad del Rosario)

Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century, Puerto Rico saw rapid progress in expanding primary education. However, as elsewhere in Latin America, there were pronounced regional differences in the rates of increased schooling. Due to its varied crop suitability and detailed records from the US colonial government, Puerto Rico is an ideal setting to explore the role of agriculture in explaining regional variation in the growth of education. This chapter presents a newly constructed panel dataset of enrollment and attendance rates by counties between 1907 and 1943. It finds that differing agricultural production technologies, alongside policy decisions and rates of urbanization, help explain why the growth rate of education varied across regions. JEL: N16, N56, O15.

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  • Matthew Curtis & Mateo Uribe-Castro, 2023. "The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900," Springer Books, in: Felipe Valencia Caicedo (ed.), Roots of Underdevelopment, pages 523-553, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-38723-4_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38723-4_19
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    Keywords

    education; Puerto Rico; commodities; public schooling;
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    JEL classification:

    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N56 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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