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Literacy and schooling in Italy and Spain (1860-1921): a comparative analysis

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  • Gabriele Cappelli
  • Gloria Quiroga Valle

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This article provides the first harmonised quantitative evidence on the expansion of literacy and schooling in the provinces of Italy and Spain (today’s NUTS 3 statistical units) between 1861 and 1921. Our analysis of this novel dataset suggests that, despite educational (and socioeconomic) conditions being remarkably similar in the two countries in 1860, it was Italy that experienced rapid educational development starting in the 1880s, overtaking Spain around 1900. Among the proximate determinants of these different educational trends, we focus on the different norms contained in the two national school acts, the role of private schooling, education spending, and the feminisation of teaching.

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  • Gabriele Cappelli & Gloria Quiroga Valle, 2020. "Literacy and schooling in Italy and Spain (1860-1921): a comparative analysis," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 87-123.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jrkmxm:doi:10.1410/99052:y:2020:i:1:p:87-123
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    1. Vitantonio Mariella, 2023. "Landownership concentration and human capital accumulation in post-unification Italy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1695-1764, July.

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